Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience

After the pandemic of COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, a set of health measures were adopted internationally to control the spread of the virus. Among these, the lockdowns and isolations resulted in the widespread adoption of communication technologies as mediato...

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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cs_7987 en https://journals.openedition.org/cs/7987 2023-02-02T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/eyrh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience Comunicação e sociedade Centro de estudos de comunicação e sociedade info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2183-3575 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-2089 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs Simões, Rita Basílio de Amaral, Inês Santos, Sílvio Alcantara, Juliana violência online genderizada comportamentos abusivos vitimologia gendered online violence abusive behavior victimology After the pandemic of COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, a set of health measures were adopted internationally to control the spread of the virus. Among these, the lockdowns and isolations resulted in the widespread adoption of communication technologies as mediators in all daily situations involving physical contact, from work to leisure. In addition to the several unprecedented conditions that the pandemic brought, this widespread adoption brought about an unparalleled context regarding online gender violence, focusing on women. This study focuses on how women experience the nature, prevalence, and impacts of online violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using critical thematic analysis, this qualitative approach resulted from in-depth interviews with 30 women victims/survivors of online violence during the pandemic. The data enabled the identification of 10 types of dynamic and hybrid modalities of online violence against women. The results of this study contribute to deepening the knowledge about this specific period and, above all, to the solidification and typification of a lexicon related to online violence, helping to fill an existing gap in Portugal. Depois de a pandemia de COVID-19 ter sido declarada pela Organização Mundial de Saúde em março de 2020, um conjunto de medidas sanitárias foram adotadas internacionalmente para controlar a expansão do vírus. De entre estas, os confinamentos e isolamentos tiveram como consequência a adoção generalizada de tecnologias de comunicação como mediadoras em todas as situações quotidianas que implicassem contacto físico, do trabalho ao lazer. Para além das várias situações inéditas que a pandemia trouxe, esta adoção generalizada trouxe um contexto sem precedentes no que diz respeito à violência de género online, com particular enfoque nas mulheres. Este estudo debruça-se sobre a forma como as mulheres experienciam a natureza, a prevalência e os impactos da violência online ocorrida durante a pandemia de COVID-19. Com recurso a uma análise temática crítica, esta abordagem qualitativa resultou de entrevistas em profundidade a 30 mulheres vítimas/sobreviventes de violência online durante a pandemia. Os dados permitiram identificar 10 tipos de modalidades dinâmicas e híbridas de violência online contra mulheres. Os resultados deste estudo contribuem, não só para aprofundar o conhecimento sobre este período específico, mas, sobretudo, para a solidificação e tipificação de um léxico relativo à violência online, ajudando a colmatar uma falha existente em Portugal.
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topic violência online genderizada
comportamentos abusivos
vitimologia
gendered online violence
abusive behavior
victimology
spellingShingle violência online genderizada
comportamentos abusivos
vitimologia
gendered online violence
abusive behavior
victimology
Simões, Rita Basílio de
Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sílvio
Alcantara, Juliana
Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
description After the pandemic of COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, a set of health measures were adopted internationally to control the spread of the virus. Among these, the lockdowns and isolations resulted in the widespread adoption of communication technologies as mediators in all daily situations involving physical contact, from work to leisure. In addition to the several unprecedented conditions that the pandemic brought, this widespread adoption brought about an unparalleled context regarding online gender violence, focusing on women. This study focuses on how women experience the nature, prevalence, and impacts of online violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using critical thematic analysis, this qualitative approach resulted from in-depth interviews with 30 women victims/survivors of online violence during the pandemic. The data enabled the identification of 10 types of dynamic and hybrid modalities of online violence against women. The results of this study contribute to deepening the knowledge about this specific period and, above all, to the solidification and typification of a lexicon related to online violence, helping to fill an existing gap in Portugal.
author Simões, Rita Basílio de
Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sílvio
Alcantara, Juliana
author_facet Simões, Rita Basílio de
Amaral, Inês
Santos, Sílvio
Alcantara, Juliana
author_sort Simões, Rita Basílio de
title Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_short Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_full Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_fullStr Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_full_unstemmed Online Violence Against Women: Reports From the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_sort online violence against women: reports from the covid-19 pandemic experience
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publishDate 2023
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