Project description and objectives
LOG IN overall objective is to prevent and fight gender-based violence through the promotion, among teen-agers, of responsible behaviours in their use of social networks.
In the framework of LOG IN, gender-based violence will be faced focusing on the impact that new technologies and social networks have nowadays on relationships and communication models.
LOG IN starts from the thesis that the new methods of communication and relation through social networks are not neutral, but can negatively influence the quality of affective and relational life, inasmuch as they promote “fast” and superficial forms of interaction. These new methods can also have an important role in encouraging various forms of verbal, psychological and physical violence towards women, considering that the stereotypes and the images that circulate on internet usually stick roles to women and men that only separate them instead of making them closer.
Specific project objectives are:
- to understand the importance of the use of social networks, new media, chats, SMS, etc. in the everyday life of adolescents;
- to make young people aware of the issue of gender-based violence and of the role that new technologies may have in encouraging it;
- to combat harmful and violent behaviours in the use of social networks by youths, proposing to teen-agers models of relationship between the sexes based on mutual respect;
- to make parents, teachers, educators aware of the negative and positive uses of new media by youths;
- to propose positive ways to use new technologies, showing to teen-agers how social networks and new media can be exploited for communication, learning, exchange of opinions, participation in the social and political life.
