Prof. Brenda Murphy, Department of Gender and Sexualities, recently presented two papers at Eurocrim23 in Florence.
In collaboration with Dr Clarissa Sammut Scerri (Department of Child and Family Studies), Prof Murphy presented Mediatised Activism. Anger and Action - Online communities and digital resistance to GBV; and a second paper - Faming the Other, Narratives of non-national women 'as victim': A Study of Media Coverage of Femicide in Ireland & Malta - was presented in collaboration with Dr Jennifer O’Mahoney, Ireland.
The first paper interrogated the digital activism and support mechanisms that emerged as voices of resistance to GBV in the days that followed Chantelle Chetcuti’s femicide on 2 February 2020: the second paper was a comparative study of media coverage of two contemporary high-profile cases of femicide (one in Ireland and one in Malta), with particular attention to the intersectionality of gender, race, and xenophobia; how the context of the crimes is reported; which sources are presented; and how the victim is framed in relation to the perpetrator, in the media coverage, and concluded with updated recommendations for media reporting of gender-based violence. Both pieces of research look at femicide in Malta (and Ireland) through the lens of the news / social media..
This was the 23rd Annual Conference for of the European Society of Criminology - the next Eurocrim - Eurocrim24 - will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from 11 to 14 September 2024.