Evidence suggests that in the United States we live in a stalking culture—a culture in which
stalking is normalized, minimized, and romanticized through various cultural institutions. We
also live in an era when romantic interactions and dating are increasingly taking place
online. Bringing together these ideas, the present study examines perceptions of lay
observers of the cyberstalking of women with a focus on gender and stalking context.
Drawing on data from an original vignette study via an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) …