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‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in person

  • Written by Carrie Ann Johnson, Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Iowa State University
‘Whisper networks’ don’t work as well online as off − here’s why women are better able to look out for each other in personWould you trust sensitive information from someone you know more than from an anonymous online poster?kali9/E+ via Getty Images

Whisper networks are informal channels that women use to warn each other about sexual harassment, abuse or assault. The reason they work isn’t because they are secret – they work because they are contextual.

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