Digital Violence against women: Exclusion categories of gender on networks

Abstract

The 21st century begins as the era of the digital world. Since the second half of the 20th century, increasing globalization and large-scale technological advances have produced significant changes in people's lives and in the functioning of entire nations. With the advent of networks, and the socialization of technology on a large scale, people around the world were able to access new systems and connect directly with other regions and people kilometers away. If on the one hand the democratization of technology has become a means of social inclusion and expanded access to information and education, paradoxically it can also be used as a tool for exclusion and segregation against groups or people. The expansion of hate speech in its media contributes to symbolic violence that often translates into sexist and misogynistic behaviors, which exclude and attack women simply because of their gender condition. The work presented here seeks to address these issues and contribute to solutions that seek to reduce such exclusionary phenomena and increase the democratic and healthy participation of women in the digital era.