Abstract

The Nature of Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse among Young Adults in Sub-Saharan Africa

Highlights

  • The utilization of technology, including cell phones, cameras, internet-associated gadgets, personal computers, and social media, has become part of regular dayto-day activities (Douglas, Harris, & Dragiewicz, 2019; Gillwald, 2017; Henry & Powell, 2018; Simon, Goldberg, Aharonson-Daniel, Leykin, & Adini, 2014)

  • The results show that unwanted sexually explicit images, comments, emails or text messages were the most common types of technology-facilitated violence and abuse (TFVA) experienced by the respondents

  • It is notable that the overwhelming majority of young adults in our sample reported having experienced at least one of the listed forms of behavior often associated with TFVA

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Summary

Introduction

The utilization of technology, including cell phones, cameras, internet-associated gadgets, personal computers, and social media, has become part of regular dayto-day activities (Douglas, Harris, & Dragiewicz, 2019; Gillwald, 2017; Henry & Powell, 2018; Simon, Goldberg, Aharonson-Daniel, Leykin, & Adini, 2014). These technologies are used for communicating and to carry out routine tasks. In SSA, 41% of respondents utilize the internet across six countries surveyed (Silver & Johnson, 2018a) Of these six countries, South Africa had the highest population with internet access, a median of 59%. The majority of internet users in SSA go online for social communication purposes (Silver & Johnson, 2018a)

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