The Italian researcher Eleonora Esposito has received a scholarship Marie Sklodowska Curie from the European Commission to develop a project at the University of Navarra graduate 'Online hate against women leaders in Europe: a corpus-assisted multimodal critical analysis' (WONT-HATE). It will be incorporated into the 'Public discourse' line of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), the research center at Humanities and social sciences of the campus.

According to Esposito at agreement , today's digital media "have great potential to strengthen women's participation in political and institutional processes, but they have also opened new channels for gender-based attacks in the public sphere against women".

Specifically, it will focus on online misogyny phenomena such as gender-based hate speech , rape threats and sexual harassment. To this end, it will analyze the discursive and rhetorical multimodal strategies of such attacks in four countries: Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom.

Digital security, gender violence and equality

"WONT-HATE aims to contribute to the current discussion on the use of data of social networks for social research , providing new critical theoretical perspectives, as well as a transdisciplinary methodology to select and collect data and to contextualize the new dynamics of digital interaction," he explains. Thus, he notes that he seeks to "explore the speech as a social internship and to treat the online and offline together, not as separate and independent spheres".

WONT-HATE addresses issues related to digital security, gender-based violence and equality, aspects covered by the Horizon 2020 Program and the European Union's Strategic Commitment on Gender Equality 2016-2019.

The European Commission awards Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships to contribute to the development of research in the European Union. They are funded under the framework Program for research and development Technology (Horizon 2020). They are among the most competitive grants and aim to goal promote the professional degree program of talented researchers.

ICS currently has two other Marie Curie researchers. framework Demichelis is working on 'Religion and Civil Society', where she studies the 'war verses' of the Koran, and Sarali Gintsburg has joined 'Public discourse' this academic year with the project ORFORCREA, which investigates the cognitive instructions of creativity in verbal art.