Violenza di genere e tecnologie: ripensare le disuguaglianze nell’era digitale

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Author/s Chiara Gius, Antonella Mascio
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/70
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 5-18 File size 595 KB
DOI 10.3280/SC2025-070001
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Digitalisation, platformisation and AI are reshaping everyday life and amplifying inequalities in access, skills and participation. Within this context, technology-facilitated gender-based violence emerges as a systemic phenomenon rooted in socio-technical infrastructures and gendered power relations. This introduction outlines key conceptual challenges, research gaps and the need for interdisciplinary approaches to address cyber-VAWG.

Keywords: Technology facilitated gender-based violence; digital inequality; coercion; hate speech; AI; digital media.

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Chiara Gius, Antonella Mascio, Violenza di genere e tecnologie: ripensare le disuguaglianze nell’era digitale in "SOCIOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE " 70/2025, pp 5-18, DOI: 10.3280/SC2025-070001