Send Me Nudes: An Exploration of Revenge Porn, Private and Public Spheres Through the iCloud Hacking Scandal

  

The recent hacking of celebrity phones to share intimate images of their private lives has become increasingly common over the few last years. Sex and skin sell, particularly when celebrities are involved and intimate images of celebs are readily available through cyberspace (Karmack,11). Because of the nature of these hackings and their unwanted release, it is arguable that these images can be classified as revenge porn, causing significant amounts of damage to it's their victims. By considering such images as a form of revenge porn, our understanding of the presentation of the ideological spheres of public and private in regard to celebrity can be exposed

What Do I Do Now? A Post-Election Perspective

 I sit here almost twenty-four hours later, my 'Making Herstory' t-shirt crumpled on the floor, the faint scrawling of #NastyWoman still on my wrist, the bottle of sparkling grape juice I got for the occasion still untouched, and I am still dumbfounded about what happened last night.

Now I am not an American, nor do I have any official say or vote when it comes to the American election but the last eighteen months I have felt just as impacted by this election, just as so many other international viewers have felt watching this trainwreck take place. I have worked to make my voice count on social media, made sure I knew my facts and figures, donated money to the cause, and made sure that even in my tiny country those around me understood what was up for grabs, and now I just keep questioning how we have ended up here.