Abstract

GOMEZ CRUZ, Brenda Magali. Digital is Political: Women University Students Vis-À-Vis Digital Violence against Women. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2023, vol.18, e103.  Epub Apr 14, 2023. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2023.v18.640.

This paper aims to analyze the experience of women university students studying at FES Zaragoza (UNAM) who face digital violence, the meaning they attribute to it, and the way in which they cope with it. A study using digital ethnography and narrative analysis from a feminist gender perspective revealed that women university students using digital space consider that: 1) this type of violence has become normalized by society; 2) women face greater conditions of vulnerability than men; and 3) it is necessary to implement personal and collective practices of caring, which allow women to feel safer at the university. The study reached the conclusion that “digital is political,” inasmuch as the digital is permeated by power, in the face of which women university students are organizing in order to transform their gender condition.

Keywords : digital ethnography; feminist gender perspective; digital violence; women university students.