Resisting Digital Violence | Workshop with Jennifer Adams
Media Workshop on Thursday, May 21, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Duration: 4 hours (including breaks)
Maximum number of participants: 12
Please register at: office@frauensolidaritaet.org
Participation is free of charge.
Resisting Digital Violence – Feminist Strategies for Safety, Solidarity & Ethical Storytelling
This interactive workshop explores digital gender-based and racist violence through an intersectional, feminist, and decolonial lens. Together, participants will examine how online harassment reflects broader systems of patriarchy, racism, and exclusion, and how marginalized voices are disproportionately targeted in digital spaces.
Agenda:
Arrival & Grounding: Brief somatic exercise to build presence, focus, and establish group values and shared language.
Understanding Digital Violence: Mapping how gendered and racialized abuse functions online and the ways in which it bolsters analogue abuse and marginalization.
Digital Self-Defense: Practical tools for online safety, documentation, and collective protection strategies.
Ethical & Sensitive Reporting: Exploring how journalism can report on gender-based violence without reproducing harm, victim blaming, or racist narratives.
Interactive Reflection: Collaborative exercises, case studies, and media critique to foster shared learning and ideas for collaborative and creative resistance.
Participants will leave with practical resources, critical frameworks, and community-based strategies for safer digital engagement and more ethical storytelling.
Jennifer Adams is a digital policy expert and strategist with over 15 years of experience promoting gender justice, media freedom, and human rights in digital spaces. Her international work focuses on Western Europe and the Balkans. She leads research and advocacy on media and information literacy, holistic digital security, and countering gendered disinformation and Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV). She also runs the Comms Policy Collaborative at the University of Vienna, fostering sustainable partnerships between academic and policy communities across borders.
Gefördert aus Mitteln der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politische Bildung.