Technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration as a tool for gender policing in secondary schools
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research examines student, teacher and administrator experiences of tech-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. TFSV includes a range of acts where digital technologies are used to facilitate virtual and in-person sexual harms. Data were collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews with 9 in-service teachers and 4 administrators as well as 16 recent secondary school graduates. Findings demonstrate that TFSV serves as both a mechanism for gender policing and a means of aligning with hegemonic masculinity and manosphere ideologies, with schools functioning as institutional contexts that enable the perpetration of these harms. Boys use TFSV to assert masculine dominance, gain peer approval and police gender norms, particularly by targeting girls through slut-shaming and image-based sexual abuse. Schools, prioritizing reputation over accountability, normalize these harms by downplaying disciplinary action and failing to address the structural forces sustaining digital gendered violence.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it