ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores uses of the term 'revenge porn', and discusses what is covered in the various definitions of the term in dictionaries, by organisations such as the UK Safer Internet Centre, and in legislation such as the UK Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. It explains the issues related to ownership of the images, in particular, the ownership of photographer, and how that might impact on perpetrator perspectives. The book shows that people interact on multiple levels such as narrative, interactive, communicative, adaptive and productive, as well through a variety of media such as email, social media, forums and chat rooms. It argues that the fundamental and recurring issues about how revenge porn violates victims and survivors can be understood in terms of gender and sexual dynamics and constructions, binary gender and sexual positionings and logics and the use of sexual meanings.
