DIGITALNO OKRUŽENJE I RODNO ZASNOVANO NASILJE - PRILOG PROUČAVANJU
Digital environment and gender-based violence – A contribution to the study

Summary/Abstract: Digital gender-based violence is a phenomenon which openly questions utopian notions about contemporary information and communication technology, including the idea of cyberspace as a locus of freedom and equality for all. Digitally facilitated violence is one of the practices that link together the digital and the physical world, which poses the question of the extent to which online violence impacts the everyday life of women. The paper stresses the importance of research on the various forms and aspects of digital violence against women; it insists that the understanding of this phenomenon includes, while not being limited to, other forms of interpersonal violence committed by men against women. Based on the personal testimonies of women respondents from Serbia who experienced digitally mediated violence, the final part of the paper problematizes the influence and repercussions of these forms of violence on the everyday life.Digital gender-based violence is a phenomenon which openly questions utopian notions about contemporary information and communication technology, including the idea of cyberspace as a locus of freedom and equality for all. Digitally facilitated violence is one of the practices that link together the digital and the physical world, which poses the question of the extent to which online violence impacts the everyday life of women. The paper stresses the importance of research on the various forms and aspects of digital violence against women; it insists that the understanding of this phenomenon includes, while not being limited to, other forms of interpersonal violence committed by men against women. Based on the personal testimonies of women respondents from Serbia who experienced digitally mediated violence, the final part of the paper problematizes the influence and repercussions of these forms of violence on the everyday life.

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