Sarkar, Sahana and Rajan, Benson (2021) Materiality and discursivity of cyber violence against women in India. Journal of Creative Communications. ISSN 09732586 (In Press)
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Abstract
With the advent of the digital age and online networks, a new facet of human experience materialised called the cyberspace. In other words, it is an addition to an individual’s intrapsychic world. Millions of people are using the Internet as a day-to-day activity to enhance their lives while at the same time there are people who are using it for anti-social purposes such as stalking, harassing, bullying and so on. This, with the advent of the Internet, has become a new weapon of abuse. This research intends to bring the two realms of virtual and physical, which are considered as binaries into a productive dialogue on violence against women. In doing so, it takes forward the narratives of cyber violence survivors into rethinking the construction of disembodied and embodied violence. I pursue this aim by exploring how women survivors of India conceptualise and respond to cyber violence. This is a qualitative exploratory study located within the theoretical framework of feminist standpoint theory in order to engage each survivor’s story from their individual standpoint. An in-depth interview was conducted for 30 women survivors in India. This study will help to critically understand cyber violence as an embodied experience.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Cyber Violence | Gender-Based Hate Speech | Image-Based Sexual Abuse | Gender | Women |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Human Rights |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of Journalism & Communication |
Depositing User: | Amees Mohammad |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2022 06:13 |
Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2022 06:36 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0973258621992273 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/1136 |
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