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Giulia Campaioli

PhD Programme: Anthropology and Communication
Research group: GAS – Grup d’Antropologia Social
Supervisor: Francisco Javier Ortega Guerrero

Bio

Giulia Campaioli graduated in psychology at the University of Padua, Italy. Since her first study on pro-Anorexia and pro-self-injury online content, Giulia has developed an interest in the digital transformation of society and critical, interdisciplinary approaches in the social sciences. She has carried out qualitative inquiry on intimacy, gender, and post-digital safety collaborating with the University of Paduaa and Northumbria University (UK); she also collaborated with the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Cooperativa Nivalis (Milan, Italy) on playful approaches to online psychotherapy with families. She is now a PhD student in Anthropology and Communication, line of Medical anthropology and global health, where she applies a change-oriented, transdisciplinary approach to map civil society responses to online gender-based violence in Brazil, Spain, and Italy.

Project: Civil society responses to cyberviolence in Brazil, Italy, and Spain: a multimodal ethnography

Gender-based violence is recognized as a global human rights and public health issue that needs to be confronted through an articulation of institutional, civil society, and private actors. Information and communication technologies have enabled new forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), with growing evidence of the imbrications between online and offline violence. Not only does this continuum of violence have direct and indirect consequences on the mental health and integrity of victims and survivors, but it also contributes to silencing the voices of minoritized people and groups, pushing them out of the online public sphere and threatening democracies. Civil society organizations are at the forefront of developing responses to online/offline GBV and, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations urged governments and platforms to support and collaborate with organizations that have developed responses to TFGBV to understand the aftermath of the "shadow pandemic" of domestic and online GBV. What organizations have developed responses to technology-facilitated violence and what kind of actions have they carried out, online and offline? This project aims to answer these questions through a multimodal ethnography with civil society organizations in Brazil, Italy, and Spain, with the aim of unpacking situated conceptualizations of TFGBV, documenting and mapping practices to counter TFGBV, and fostering international networking and knowledge sharing.

Open Access publications

  • Campaioli, G., Testoni, I., & Zamperini, A. (2022). Double blue ticks: Reframing ghosting as ostracism through an abductive study on affordances. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace 16(5), Article 10. View full-text
  • Campaioli, G. Hiding the gender binary behind the 'other'. A cross-platform analysis of gender and sexuality self-categorization affordances on mobile dating apps (2023). AG - About Gender 12(23), 64-97. View full-text

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