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National Seminar on Threats, Abuses, Flirting, and Trolling: Gender Inequity in Social Media Voice Forums

Sub-Category: Interdisciplinary

Objectives:

To analyze vitality and responsibility of social media

To discuss # (Hash-tag) activism bringing women’s issues to the forefront

To tackle violence against women through social media tools

To generate Public accountability towards gender equality

To discuss portrayal of women on social media

To make community aware of the threats to women in changing nature of media

To investigate reasons for low participation of women in media forums

To study discrimination and abuse of women on the public platforms

To give women place and voice in the larger media community

To exterminate the barriers that keep women away from mainstream

Outcomes:

The seminar shall

Bring about the strategies to Women’s empowerment

Have remedial measures to Censorship and harassment of women on social platforms

Help increase women's capacity to participate in decision making and leadership

Up-root the dominance of men over women in social media

Put an end to Under-representation and misrepresentation of women

Sensitize the society aware Sexual harassment of women

Help provide path to women to the mainstream

 Subthemes of the Seminar:

• Catfishing and Cyberbullying
• Gender and Cyberbullying Targets
• Cyberbullying and Gender Issues
• Cyber-extortion, Sextortion and Blackmail
• Impact of Gender on Social Media Image
• Gender Inequality Memes
• Social Media, Gender, and the Future
• Cyberbullying on College Campus
• Online Dating and Relationships
• Harassment and Misogyny on Dating Sites
• Crossing Lines in Cyber Relationships
• Social Media and Insecurity in Relationships
• Teens, Technology and Relationships
• Flirting and Emotional Cheating on Social Media
• Internet harassment and Online Threats Targeting Women
• Economic Inequality and Female Sexualization on Social Media
• Coaches, Student Athletes, and the Misuse of Social Media
• Anti-Cyber bullying Laws in India
• Legal Rights against Cyberbullying
• #Me Too Campaign
• Anti-Trolling Campaigns
• Psychology of Internet Trolls
• Psychology of Dating in the Techno-sexual Era
• Psychological Abuse in the Context of Social Media
• Digital Feminism
• Feminist Activism on Social Media
• Reviving Feminism through Social Media
• Feminism and Social Media: Threats and Opportunities
• Transgender Surveillance and Violence on Social Media
• Transgender issues on Social media
• Transphobic Violence on Social Networking Sites
• Gender Inequality in Internet Pornography
• Porn and Social Media
• Youth, Pornography and the Internet
• Mansplaining, Thinspiration, Fitspiration, Bonespiration, Anorexia
• Social Comparison and Body Image on Social Media
• Sexuality in Internet Gaming
• Web Series and Women
• Porn and Social Media
• Youth, Pornography and the Internet

Seminar organized by: DEPT OF ENGLISH, DEOGIRI COLLEGE, AURANGABAD (MAHARASHTRA)

Address: Railway Station Road, Aurangabad (Maharashtra) 431005

Date of the Seminar: 24/1/2020

Venue: Rabindranath Tagore Auditorium, Deogiri College, Aurangabad