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Feminist Media Studies

A technologically armed peeping Tom, the creeper is the most recent incarnation of the video voyeur of the late 1990s, disseminating and sharing non-consensual sexual photographs via the internet. Alongside upskirting, creepshotting is a recent iteration of image-based sexual abuse, whereby images are captured and distributed without consent online. In order to understand the evolution of the creepshot and its current status as a major form of online misogyny, we have to excavate the past, and analyse the technological developments that have enabled this behaviour to proliferate today. Whilst we are concerned with the present state of creepshots and online misogyny, we situate these forms of technologically facilitated violence against women against a backdrop of developments in audio-visual media that have altered the gendered regimes of visibility women are entangled in. We therefore conduct a media archaeology that examines the technological preconditions for both producing and disseminating creepshots online.

A media archaeology of the creepshot