whether the celebrities are even described as victims); use of metaphor and rhetoric (of which ‘leaking’ is an important example); nominalization (wherein the hacking by somebody becomes a ‘hack’ that happened); modality/authority (‘naughty photos’ versus ‘private photos’; use of ‘you’ versus ‘them’ versus ‘us’); and ambiguity, which was a notable trend in discussions of cloud technology and privacy rights (see Machin and Mayr, 2012 : 12–13).
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More than a sex crime: a feminist political economy of the 2014 iCloud hack.
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