Conceptualising TechViolence Nexus: Experiences of ambiguities at the intersection of digital coercive control and (socio)digital inequalities

Abstract

This short communication is based on a qualitative study investigating the relationship between digital technologies and gender-based violence (GBV). The term, TechViolence Nexus, introduced in this article, offers an in-depth understanding of the cyclic interaction between digital coercive control and (socio)digital inequalities. It highlights the ambiguities created by technologies in victim-survivors’ lives, revealing the ways in which digital coercive control intensifies and prolongs the reach of perpetrators and excludes women from technological spaces. Our framework calls for a reimagining of technology design and policy implementation that accounts for the impacts of GBV and digital inequalities on women’s experiences of technologies.