The link between these phenomena is organic, with Yiannopoulos playing a critical role in both attempts to terrorize female-identifying individuals into silence and compliance. I explore the connection between Milo Yiannopoulos’s key role in GamerGate, the online harassment of female journalists, and the targeted attacks against female academics working in the Digital Humanities. This article discusses the targeting of women and minorities on the internet, specifically focusing on matters which have arisen within the Digital Humanities community in the Global North. Ultimately, we must continue to develop and teach an ethics of "do no harm", both for the researcher and for the researched. We argue that the complex circumstances of online research must be considered when evaluating the ethical concerns of different studies, especially before judging researchers' choices to, for instance, remain anonymous in an online community or not allow research participants the chance to comment on a researcher's work. We explore one research project on #GamerGate, finding that this research context raises key issues: first, that some groups are openly hostile to the very identity/ies of the researcher second, that some groups are hostile towards researchers in general and third, that sometimes ethnographic research might require the researcher to engage with ideological positions they find distasteful or even violent to their selves. We then discuss a central component to ethical practice in research and writing-our power to be affected and to affect others. In this paper, we review the existing literature that explores the intersections between the identities of the researcher and the researched. In the age of GamerGate and Cambridge Analytica, it is more important than ever that we find ways to conduct online research effectively and ethically.
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