The era of social media

youth and gender violence

Abstract

Social networks have a strong social impact, expanding the possibilities of communication to unsuspected limits, allowing information and knowledge to be shared with a greater number of people; in turn, they can be a tool to perpetuate expressions of gender violence. Hence, this research aimed to analyze the level of sexism and gender violence present in social networks. Descriptive study, from a quantitative perspective and used the questionnaire on new technologies to transmit gender violence. The population was young people residing in the western area of El Salvador over fifteen years old. It was found that the presence of gender violence in social networks is low, since the global percentage reached in the sum of the items was 98.6%, which implies that
there are very few young people who are in favor of those behaviors that reflect gender violence in social networks, either because they have practiced, observed or have been victims. It is evident that the male sex is the one that most carries out actions such as making offensive and insulting calls through mobile phones or the Internet; spreading private photos or videos of someone over the
internet, among others. It is concluded that social networks do encourage gender violence, although while women are the most affected, this phenomenon has also spread to men and the LGBTIQ+ community.