Redes de Cuidado Digital: Uma etnografia multimodal das respostas da sociedade civil à violência de gênero facilitada pela tecnologia entre Brasil, Espanha e Itália

Abstract

Technology-facilitated gender-related violence (TFGRV) is an umbrella term for those forms of gender-based violence mediated by Information and Communication Technologies. In the past twenty years, TFGRV has increasingly affected women and gender- and sexual-non-conforming people, perpetuating and extending existing gender-based violence in intimate relationships and public spaces. Recognizing the urgency but also the complexity of the phenomenon of TFGRV, this research mobilizes multimodal feminist anthropology, grounded in feminist ethics of care and a transformative, participant-centred approach, to examine civil society responses to TFGRV between Brazil, Spain and Italy. The thematic analysis and contextual comparison highlight the centrality of intersectional perspectives and the online–offline continuum of violence. Networks of digital care emerged from the need of an approach to digital safety that is holistic and based on feminist ethics of care. Digital care in the Brazilian context draws from transfeminist, intersectional and black and indigenous women’s knowledge, practices, and politics of care. I argue that digital care encompasses knowledge production, communication, support, education, network building, funding models, and autonomous infrastructures. Overall, the field of digital care contributes not only to create a safer internet but invites us to think about the materiality and (infra)structural inequalities embedded in digital technologies, drawing from care in the political sense