Shitty media men

Abstract

This chapter analyzes media responses to the Shitty Media Men list, an open-source document briefly circulated on the Internet in late 2017 that enabled women to anonymously report instances of sexual misconduct and violence perpetrated by men working in the US media industry. The chapter employs an ethical lens to explore concepts of moral communication in the social media age alongside the concepts of sexual misconduct and violence that the list allegedly documents. In describing and discussing the claims and counter-claims made by key commentators, including Katie Roiphe, Andrew Sullivan and the list creator Moira Donegan herself, the chapter considers how these were taken up in social me..