Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence Against Women In India: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Harm, And The Limits Of Law
- IJLLR Journal
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Ms. Chandni Dhawan & Dr. Anmol Kaur Nayar
ABSTRACT
"I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely, the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat, and I would cry for a week," a few words once shared by Sylvia Plath in her work The Bell Jar.
The experiences this path captures are not unknown: navigating areas where openness is often a shared presence rather than a sense of cordiality and aid. In modern times, such vulnerability has extended beyond physical spaces, encroaching into virtual environments where exposure is amplified and harm is magnified.
This transition from material to digital space is not only about location, but also structure. Digital space can be conceptualised as an architecture of visibility sustained by platform architecture, algorithms, ordering, and data persistence. Where space visibility in a traditional sense is fleeting and circumstantial, digital space visibility is persistent, searchable, and reproducible. This makes the state of vulnerability qualitatively different from its presence in a traditional space; rather than a circumstantial experience, it is now a persistent one.
The observation that digital technologies should not be seen as innocent intermediaries but as sites within which social relationships are negotiated, enhanced, and ultimately reproduced was also echoed in recent publications by Agyare (2025) and Prado (2025). platforms' algorithms often amplify gendered abuse through engagement-driven visibility.
