ABSTRACT
Internet technology, coupled with photography and smart phones, provides new ways of carrying out self-defined image control and replicating dominant hierarchies of sex, race, and sexuality. Sexting, slut-shaming, and revenge porn specifically demonstrate the ways in which technology perpetuates regulation of girls and women's sexuality and curtails our freedom of speech. Threats and harms from sexting come, generally speaking, from peer groups and negatively affect female technology users who report being subjected online and off to greater sexual pressure more than males. The trajectory of shame and blame can be even more startling in cases of sexual assault. In addition to the problems of sexting, slut-shaming, and bullying through social media, there exists a burgeoning revenge porn industry. A growing movement, focused on establishing a canon of cyber civil rights, is making headway in criminalizing revenge porn in the United States.
