The digital revolution and the uptake of on-line info and communications applied sciences have each optimistic and unfavourable gendered impacts. On the one hand, on-line areas and digital instruments can facilitate entry to important info and providers, unleashing academic and employment alternatives for girls and women. But however, for individuals who are on-line and do have entry, a rising physique of proof sheds mild on the methods during which the digital revolution has exacerbated current, and even created new, types of gendered inequalities and oppression, together with technology-facilitated violence in opposition to ladies.

Despite a rising proof base and accelerated efforts to develop fit-for-purpose quantitative and qualitative analysis and information assortment strategies, vital gaps stay in our understanding of the size and explicit manifestations of technology-facilitated violence in opposition to ladies, together with how ladies who face intersecting types of discrimination expertise or resist it.

Based on a scoping examine, this paper provides a panorama scan highlighting what is thought about technology-facilitated violence in opposition to ladies, who’s presently producing this information, and the way the proof is being produced. The paper additionally highlights among the associated methodological, moral, and sociopolitical challenges to accumulating information on technology-facilitated violence in opposition to ladies. As a method ahead, actions for strengthening information technology and information assortment are proposed, together with suggestions on strategies and additional analysis.