Materiality and discursivity of cyber violence against women in India

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
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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