In this chapter, I focus on interviews conducted with boys and girls at a secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, as they talk about technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence (TFGBV). By drawing upon assemblage thinking, I show how the entanglement of human and more-than-human elements shape boys’ and girls’ experiences of TFGBV. There are two parts to the findings. First, girls address their online experiences through sexual double standards and slut-shaming, illustrating how their actions are assembled within a gendered and sexualised domain that materialises inequalities. Hegemonic masculinity is reinforced online when boys seek nudes from girls. Second, TFGBV goes beyond normative understandings of gender as girls too engage in slut-shaming as part of the heterosexual assemblage and actively participate in reinforcing inequalities. Moreover, gender norms are disrupted as boys talk about their own experiences of receiving unsolicited nudes. This study has implications for developing strategies to mitigate violence and advocating for safer social media experiences for all teenagers beyond normative understandings of gender.

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Boys’ and Girls’ Experiences of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

  • Phumelele Basi

摘要

In this chapter, I focus on interviews conducted with boys and girls at a secondary school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, as they talk about technology-facilitated-gender-based-violence (TFGBV). By drawing upon assemblage thinking, I show how the entanglement of human and more-than-human elements shape boys’ and girls’ experiences of TFGBV. There are two parts to the findings. First, girls address their online experiences through sexual double standards and slut-shaming, illustrating how their actions are assembled within a gendered and sexualised domain that materialises inequalities. Hegemonic masculinity is reinforced online when boys seek nudes from girls. Second, TFGBV goes beyond normative understandings of gender as girls too engage in slut-shaming as part of the heterosexual assemblage and actively participate in reinforcing inequalities. Moreover, gender norms are disrupted as boys talk about their own experiences of receiving unsolicited nudes. This study has implications for developing strategies to mitigate violence and advocating for safer social media experiences for all teenagers beyond normative understandings of gender.