Gender-Based Violence Narratives in Internet-Based Conversations in Nigeria: Social Listening Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overcoming gender inequities is a global priority recognized as essential for improved health and human development. Gender-based violence (GBV) is an extreme manifestation of gender inequities enacted in real-world and internet-based environments. In Nigeria, GBV has come to the forefront of attention since 2020, when a state of emergency was declared due to increased reporting of sexual violence. Understanding GBV-related social narratives is important to design public health interventions.

Objective

We explore how gender-related internet-based conversations in Nigeria specifically related to sexual consent (actively agreeing to sexual behavior), lack of consent, and slut-shaming (stigmatization in the form of insults based on actual or perceived sexuality and b

SUBMITTER: Silva M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10541644 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature