Juventudes, representações e tecnologias: uma netnografia acerca da exploração da imagem feminina na cibercultura

Abstract

Inserted in the Research Line Family in the Social Sciences, this Master's thesis deals with the exploration of the female image in cyberculture, through exposition practices, violence, protective and interactive measures wich representing new contours of relationships between people (whether social, familiar, domestic, intimate) - especially with a young age cut. The field of observation is based on and on the internet, where there are violence and crimes, but also educational and protective processes on a large scale. Although men and women exhibit themselves, especially through intimate images (of nudity and / or sex), it is necessary to observe that women are divulged with much greater repercussion, generating several serious negative psychological consequences: for victims and for society (about the victims). In addition, a phenomenon called "pornography of revenge" has been set up, where especially men with whom the women related, expose them (often through blackmail and threats) through the dissemination of private material face of the end of the relationship and in processes of domination and violence in intimacy. Through a feminist perspective, valuing multireferenced methodologies, there was an emphasis on heterosexual relations, given the recurrence and dimension of the concrete events and representing the intention to reinforce the reminiscence of the patriarchal structure of thought and socio-cultural conviviality. The central objective was the search for an approach to representations of women - objectified, spectacular bodies and delimitation on sexualities, revealing structural oppression and rooted in social imaginaries. To this end, the development of this dissertation pervades the themes of cyberspace, youth culture, sexual education, male domination and violence against women. In order to concretize and exemplify the discussion, cases were selected for analysis that cover violence, as opposed to positive actions that gained repercussion in the networks. The cartographic method is the foundation of the qualitative approach, which is based on netnographic and supported in the analysis content and discourse. In addition, a bibliographical and journalistic survey was carried out on the network, expanding documentary sources and recording information related to the themes and axes delimited as the focus of field research. As a result of the research, one has, in fact, despite relative emancipation, women remain subjugated and raped in many spheres. However, they are more equipped with a baggage that is demonstrative of a historical struggle, which is inferred in cyberfeminist movements, which re-signify voices, patterns and scope (both fronts and individual and subjective education in an educational and protective way). Cyberfeminisms, in addition to educating and creating networks of protection and diffusion on a large scale, place women as potent activists in the present historical moment. Through education for and human rights the internet can be used in a dignified manner, inciting and enabling a wide circulation of powerful and positive information and conglomerations.