Psychological Violence Against Arab Women in the Context of Social Media: Web-Based Questionnaire Study

Bali, Ahmed Omar; Omer, Emad; Abdulridha, Kawa; Ahmad, Araz Ramazan

doi:10.2196/27944

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“…This shows that digital violence has been examined more culturally and socially. Particularly through social media, we have seen discourses (Rodriguez and Hernandez, 2018;Alvares, 2018;Crone, de Graaf, Stevenson, Nyambura and Johnson, 2018;Bali, Omer, Abdulridha and Ahmad, 2021;Garcia-Mingo and Blanco, 2021). Practices that belittle women, filters, anti-feminist discourses (Clark, 2016;Gillett, 2021), humiliation of women's rights (Guevara, Atienza-Barthelemy, Gonzalez and Robles, 2021;Labantu, 2021), discourses that women's place is in the home appear in research (Jane, 2017;Williams, 2021;Estrada et al, 2022).…”

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Digital Violence and Women: Systematization of Researchs and Suggestions for Future Research

ÇALIŞ DUMAN

2023

Anadolu Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

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This study is based on the inequality that women experience in digital spaces and the oppression and anxiety in their lives. In addition to the violence that women experience in the private or public sphere, they also experience some difficulties in the digital field. The fact that people spend more time in the virtual environment, and the increase in their use of smart phones and the internet has led to the transfer of violence against women to digital platforms. The aim of this research is to raise awareness due to the increasing trend of digital violence, to systematize studies in the academic field and to provide directions for future research. For this purpose, systematic literature review method was used in the research. The relevant literature on digital violence/digital violence and women has been reviewed, studies have been defined and analyzed. It has been seen that the studies are mostly society and culture-oriented, and digital violence is frequently studied together with social media, partner violence, domestic violence, pornography, sexual harassment. Studies have been systematized according to the types of digital violence against women. In this direction, comments were made according to the findings and suggestions were made for future research.

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confidence: 99%

Digital Violence and Women: Systematization of Researchs and Suggestions for Future Research

ÇALIŞ DUMAN

2023

Anadolu Üniversitesi İktisadi Ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi

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Body dysmorphic features among Snapchat users of “Beauty-Retouching of Selfies” and its relationship with quality of life

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Dodeen

2021

Media Asia

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Danger Zone or Newfound Freedoms: Exploring Women and Girls’ Experiences in the Virtual Space during COVID-19 in Iraq

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, women and girls across the globe faced increased reliance on the digital space to access education, social support, and health and gender-based violence (GBV) services. While research from the last three years has explored how women and girls navigated and responded to their new virtual reality, minimal evidence has been generated from low-resource settings where access to technology may be limited. Further, no studies to date have examined these dynamics in Iraq, where women and girls already face numerous threats to safety due to various forms of structural violence and patriarchal family structures. This qualitative study aimed to examine women and girls’ experiences in the digital space during COVID-19 in Iraq, including the benefits and risks of engagement as well as how access to the digital space was controlled. Data for the present analysis come from the authors’ larger multi-country study investigating women and girls’ safety and access to GBV services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures employed to control the spread of the virus. In Iraq, semi-structured key informant interviews were conducted virtually with fifteen GBV service providers. Following the translation and transcription of interviews, the thematic analysis highlighted several benefits and challenges women and girls experienced as they tried to access and utilize technology for schooling, support services, and obtaining and spreading information. While many women and girls increasingly and successfully relied on social media to spread awareness of GBV cases, key informants noted that women and girls also faced increased risks of experiencing electronic blackmail. In addition to a substantial digital divide in this context—which manifested as differential access to technology by gender, rural/urban status, and socioeconomic status—intrahousehold control of girls’ access to and use of technology left many adolescent girls unable to continue schooling and contributed to their further marginalization and consequent decline in well-being. Implications for women’s safety and mitigation strategies are also discussed.

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Psychological Violence Against Arab Women in the Context of Social Media: Web-Based Questionnaire Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

Digital Violence and Women: Systematization of Researchs and Suggestions for Future Research

Digital Violence and Women: Systematization of Researchs and Suggestions for Future Research

Body dysmorphic features among Snapchat users of “Beauty-Retouching of Selfies” and its relationship with quality of life

Danger Zone or Newfound Freedoms: Exploring Women and Girls’ Experiences in the Virtual Space during COVID-19 in Iraq

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