http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/zohra_moosa/virtual_violence Comments for "Virtual Violence, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/zohra_moosa/virtual_violence <p> <img style="width: 275px; height: 49px" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2185/2062323740_bb42f94c58_o_d.jpg" alt="16 days banner - blue" title="16 days banner - blue" width="275" height="49" /> </p> <p> <img style="width: 375px; height: 500px" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/167283194_232356d3f2_d.jpg" alt="Girls need modems" title="Girls need modems" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="375" height="500" align="right" /> </p> <p> Cyber violence against women is on <a href="http://www.crime-research.org/news/2004/01/Mess0801.html" target="_blank">the rise</a> yet many countries&#39; laws still do not have ways of addressing it in part because of the nature of the &#39;crimes&#39; involved. </p> <p> The fact that cyber violence happens virtually rather than face-to-face can make it more difficult to take action on it for any of the following reasons: </p> <ul> <li>There may not be any physical evidence that it is happening for a forensic analysis, for instance, especially if it&#39;s in chat rooms that don&#39;t log messages</li> <li>It may be difficult to link abusive behaviour to actual known people if perpetrators are using screen names</li> <li>The violence may be directed at online representations of women, which themselves may be degrading or visually violent, rather than known or actual individual women</li> </ul> <p> &nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/zohra_moosa/virtual_violence" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/zohra_moosa/virtual_violence">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/zohra_moosa/virtual_violence#comment 16 days against gender violence Zohra Moosa 5050 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:19:00 +0000 zohra moosa 35291 at http://www.opendemocracy.net