Breaking Boundaries: Advancing Gender and Technology Research to Combat Sextortion
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This editorial calls for research into technology-facilitated abuses that push the epistemic and ontological boundaries of gender and technology in IS research. Specifically, it focuses on sextortion in the digital age-a pressing societal challenge that undermines gender equality-analyzing how technology both enables and holds the potential to mitigate this form of corruption. Addressing sextortion and other forms of gender-based exploitation requires rethinking how digital technologies are conceptualized, designed, and implemented. This editorial urges scholars to move beyond critique and explore innovative frameworks that prioritize inclusivity, social justice, and participatory design.
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This risk environment is further complicated by recent developments in generative AI and the rise of AI-enabled sextortion.
“This risk environment is further complicated by recent developments in generative AI and the rise of AI-enabled sextortion (Forattini, Connolly, and Joshi 2025).”
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In “Understanding Sextortion: Mechanisms, Impact, and Socio-Structural Contexts” (page unavailable), the paper says digital transformation has added complexities to sextortion by giving perpetrators new avenues for abuse. “The Challenges That Remain” discusses risks in using AI to address sextortion, but the passages do not describe generative AI being used to perpetrate sextortion or a rise in AI-enabled sextortion. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Forattini, F. M., Connolly, R., & Joshi, K. D.
- Affiliations
- Dublin City University (IE)
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Venue
- ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems
- Published
- 2025-01-28
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6-10
- ISSN
- 0095-0033 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-0936
- OpenAlex
- W4406921579
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orcid.org
- Locations
- ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems (publishedVersion)
- Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Keywords
- sextortion, technology-facilitated abuse, gender and technology, gender equality, digital technologies, participatory design, social justice, inclusivity
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