Sahana Sarkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6276665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sahana Sarkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sahana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkar |
| SIGNATURE | SARKAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0105-7872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cybersecurity Through an Intersectional Lens
Cybersecurity, often understood as practices to anticipate digital threats, has been critiqued by feminist theorists because of its neglect of gender-based violence against women. In this paper, we argue for ‘safety by design’ on social media, addressing socio-cultural and contextual nuances of India. Based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Indian women survivors of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV), we highlight how intersectiona…
Rape, Popular Culture, and Nirbhaya
The brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) on a bus in New Delhi became worldwide news in 2012. Widely known as the Nirbhaya rape incident, it was a landmark case that led the Indian government to amend existing criminal laws on sexual violence and rape. The rape also came to transform the media landscape into a space of social activism. Despite that popular cultural representations of the incident have been critiqued for appropriating rape m…
Materiality and Discursivity of Cyber Violence Against Women in India
With the advent of the digital age and online networks, a new facet of human experience materialised called the cyberspace. In other words, it is an addition to an individual’s intrapsychic world. Millions of people are using the Internet as a day-to-day activity to enhance their lives while at the same time there are people who are using it for anti-social purposes such as stalking, harassing, bullying and so on. This, with the advent of the Int…
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Materiality and Discursivity of Cyber Violence Against Women in India
With the advent of the digital age and online networks, a new facet of human experience materialised called the cyberspace. In other words, it is an addition to an individual’s intrapsychic world. Millions of people are using the Internet as a day-to-day activity to enhance their lives while at the same time there are people who are using it for anti-social purposes such as stalking, harassing, bullying and so on. This, with the advent of the Int…
Cybersecurity Through an Intersectional Lens
Cybersecurity, often understood as practices to anticipate digital threats, has been critiqued by feminist theorists because of its neglect of gender-based violence against women. In this paper, we argue for ‘safety by design’ on social media, addressing socio-cultural and contextual nuances of India. Based on semi-structured interviews with 20 Indian women survivors of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV), we highlight how intersectiona…
Rape, Popular Culture, and Nirbhaya
The brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh (Nirbhaya) on a bus in New Delhi became worldwide news in 2012. Widely known as the Nirbhaya rape incident, it was a landmark case that led the Indian government to amend existing criminal laws on sexual violence and rape. The rape also came to transform the media landscape into a space of social activism. Despite that popular cultural representations of the incident have been critiqued for appropriating rape m…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cyberspace (1 work) · Daughter (1 work) · Domestic violence (1 work)