The dismissal of digital gender-based violence: practices, measure, and impact among female university students

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify the mechanisms for dismissing digital gender violence faced by university students. It is considered that in the study of digital violence, gender should be incorporated as an analytical category, not only to describe the differentiated practices of aggression, but also to identify mechanisms traversed by gender logics that affect the measures and repercussions that arise when facing it. contributing to its normalization. This paper analyzes digital gender violence among university women, one of the population sectors in which it is most frequently recorded. For this, the partial results of a survey among higher level students of the Universidad La Salle México, about the experiences of digital violence in networks and platforms, are presented. The discussion focuses on the specificity of the violence directed at the students based on five aspects: the differences between the practices experienced, the profile of the aggressors, the complaint processes, the measures taken and the repercussions. From this, gendered dismissal mechanisms of digital violence are identified that make it difficult to prevent and eradicate it. Finally, the need to promote digital literacy processes that incorporate critical reflection on gender as a social order that permeates sociodigital practices is established.