Bodies and algorithms: human trafficking for sexual exploitation from a digital ethnographic perspective
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Human trafficking, sexual exploitation, digital violence, Mexico, digital ethnographyAbstract
This article presents the results of a digital ethnography research study with the primary objective of analyzing the narratives, actors, and reactions that emerge around human trafficking for sexual exploitation in digital environments, with particular attention to the ways in which victims are presented, the spectacularization of judicialization processes, symbolic and discursive violence in people's interactions on social networks, as well as counter-narratives of resistance against these forms of violence. Subsequently, based on interactions, narratives, and actors, significant patterns were identified that demonstrate how exploitation is sustained in these environments, where the boundaries between complicity and violence become blurred.
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