ABSTRACT
Cyber Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is becoming a major issue, with Misogynistic tweets serving as one of its tools, for harassing, intimidating and silencing women online through improper, degrading, threatening, offensive, gender-trolling and slut-shaming discourses. This project employs a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach, Norman Fairclough's Three-Dimensional Analysis, to analyse the linguistic strategies, discursive contents and patriarchal ideologies present in these tweets. The objective of this research is to ultimately determine the causes, consequences, realities, and ideologies underlying the prevalence of these discourses and the silencing techniques employed in virtual environments. Through qualitative methodology, it objectively examines a corpus of misogynistic tweets with the Norman Fairclough CDA framework to analyze these socio-cultural discourses on gender, violence, and misogynistic ideologies employed in marginalizing women. It sheds light on the linguistic strategies and devices, discursive contents and how they represent women, men and Cyber GBV. This project contributes to the understanding of Cyber GBV, uncovering the power dynamics and discursive strategies in silencing women online, while aiming to inform interventions in the guidelines of social media and empower women to navigate these online spaces more safely and confidently.
