Reflection on Dating Violence in Women

Reflection on Dating Violence in Women

Cognition

Martin, S., McLean, J., Brooks, C., & Wood, K. (2019). “I’ve Been silenced for so Long”: Relational Engagement and Empowerment in a Digital Storytelling Project With Young Women Exposed to Dating Violence. International Journal Of Qualitative Methods, 18, 160940691982593. doi: 10.1177/1609406919825932

Human life is surrounded by mental processes that submit them to understanding or acquiring knowledge. People get knowledge of life through experience, reasoning, and perception. One of the cases subjected to such include socialization and relationships. Dating violence is critical in this topic where women are the most vulnerable in facing dating violence, and cognition plays a significant role. However, the experience and entirety witnesses make women acquire persistent change of thoughts about how women are handled or treated in society. For instance, the author stresses that social media contribute to the situation. Mostly, the social media cultivates and delivers messages that indicate abuse to the females, making them acquire fear in life. However, the author stresses that social media need to be in the front to counter and curb the new relationship and dating violence.

According to the author, the Digital Storytelling Project is the best initiative to start the healing process among women inside society. Instead of demonstration and show of violence incidences by social media, the women should share their relationship experiences and subsequent solutions. That will ultimately aid in relieve of stigma among many women under the negative perspective of how bad dating relationships are. Digital storytelling workshops are more crucial as it will push the more abused and marginalized population into freedom. Furthermore, that will help air more assistance to the violated population who suffer in silence. According to the author, Digital storytelling project will also engage more programs and initiatives in the institutions to address the dating violence among women in the society. That can involve the counselling agencies. Under that, more gender studies and education concerning such matters can assist solve the issue more comprehensively.

The article can serve as a perfect source and reference of information for a society where violence to young women is persistent. The initiation of Digital storytelling can be an ideal tool to solve the issue. Airing out the other experiences will ease the stress subjected to other victims in society and create a foundation toward the right solution. That will also hinder contrary reasoning and the way young women perceive relationship in society. The shared information will also help the victims heal and deter negative thought about their experiences and treatment.

Self-consciousness

Martin, S., McLean, J., Brooks, C., & Wood, K. (2019). “I’ve Been Silenced for so Long”: Relational Engagement and Empowerment in a Digital Storytelling Project With Young Women Exposed to Dating Violence. International Journal Of Qualitative Methods, 18, 160940691982593. doi: 10.1177/1609406919825932

Through socialization, people acquire a sense of self-realization as they continue to grow and mature. That makes people realize how other people perceive them. They find themselves as different from the others as they continue to mingle or socialize. However, concerning that, relationship abuse and abuse in young women can be built under such context. When young women become engaged in a relationship and experience abuse, they become aware of who they are in life and how society sees them. That may end up into a social stigma among women in life. Early relationships abuse may render an individual acquire a bad or negative perspective of life if not steered in the right direction as early as possible.

According to the author, Digital storytelling through social media can help air the situation to the traumatized victims. The shared experiences by the participants through social media can help shape the stigmatized minds of the young women in the right direction. However, failure to have such initiatives makes young women violent over such issues. Instead, Digital Storytelling can be of assistance to generate possible solutions toward the problems at hand.

According to t author, the use of digital storytelling can be a great tool to empower and conduct more research to expose the hidden situations surrounding dating violence and related problems among young women. Sharing of experiences and ways to solve the problems associated with dating violence creates a supportive atmosphere that can subsequently strengthen women upon handling dating violence. The programme can be much helpful, especially to the marginalized growing young girls in society. It can also bridge the socialization gap that can occur between women and men in society. It is also a social therapy toward creating positive perception and reasoning toward violence situation and the better solutions. The article can be of much help in changing the cynical minds of young women in society and empower them with the ability to solve the problems related to dating violence across the world. Furthermore, it is a mean or a path for women to pursue justice.

If Digital storytelling about dating violence matters can be globalized, then, it can be a helpful tool in education and as a means to acquire justice to many problems. That can ultimately help build Self-consciousness to most of the young women in the society in the right direction and hence; become all-rounded characters that can perceive and handle the problem without changing them negatively.