Pornografia não consentida e linchamento virtual : uma análise da (re)territorialização da violência contra a mulher no ciberespaço

Abstract

This research presents a study about virtual lynching, resulting from the practice of sexual exposure not consented in cyberspace in the postmodern contexto. Starting from a historical analysis, the social role of women in their multiple territories was observed until their natural displacement into cyberspace, an alternative space that is a consequence of the accelerated technological development that marked the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century. The general aim of the research was to discuss the main social impacts of virtual lynching through the practice of nonconsensual pornography in cyberspace, analyzed in a multiterritorial and gender perspective. A generic analysis was fullfilled on the violent statistics involving women in the country, especially from the data collected from the NGO SaferNet, which acts in the promotion and defense of Human Rights on the Internet. The study showed that, in the social relations of individuals, the new dynamics involving gender, violence and technology began to integrate the debate about the manifestation of female sexuality in cyberspace, its limits and its conditions, and that popular justice, in the practice of lynching, resulting from the practice of non-consensual pornography, manifests itself differently from traditional public lynchings and that the stigma of inferiority and social subordination of women is still visible and present in this type of violence. It is an exploratory research, with a qualitative and descriptive approach, for which the method of content analysis proposed by Bardin, with the categorization of data. The results obtained from the collected samples of news headlines published on Facebook, pointed out that there is persistence in blaming the victim when there is virtual lynching due to the violence originated from the unauthorized intimate exposure, especially when this exposure comes from the practice of sexting, as well as a manifestation criticism of social rejection of the aggressor and the current system of justice in the protection of women's human rights in cyberspace.