Academe: 'A New Reality?' on cyberharassment of academics

■ The pieces

• AAUP Academe (Joshua A. Cuevas): A New Reality? The Far Right's Use of Cyberharassment against Academics (Winter 2018, Vol. 104)https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues/104-0/new-reality-far-rights-use-cyberharassment-against-academics

■ What they show

Joshua A. Cuevas, a University of North Georgia education professor, wrote in the AAUP's Academe magazine about being targeted by online harassment campaigns. He argued that far-right networks increasingly use cyberharassment against academics. The essay presents the issue mainly as a problem of the political right.

■ The other side

Cuevas wrote from personal experience as a target, and his university president publicly backed him. The essay is a first-person argument in a professional association's magazine, not news reporting.

■ Why it's here

This exhibit is filed under Subversion, not graded as a lie. What subversion means →