Digital Voice: Technology as a Tool of Oppression and Liberation in Christina Dalcher’s Vox

Digital feminism combines feminism and digital tools; the core purpose of digital feminism is to demonstrate how women utilize the internet as a platform to share issues and promote empowerment. This study focuses particularly on the two main concepts under digital feminism: technofeminism and cyberfeminism. Technofeminism suggests that technology and gender are profoundly linked, frequently intertwining with masculine dominance, yet it also authorizes women’s empowerment. Cyberfeminism visualizes digital realms and the cyborg as instruments for combating and surpassing gender restrictions. Overall, they demonstrate that technology has the potential to both suppress and uplift women's individual freedom. The study aims to highlight the technofeminism and cyberfeminism aspects in Christina Dalcher’s text, Vox. The study’s methodology utilizes three technofeminism and cyberfeminism concepts: Gender Technological oppression, Gender-based digital divide, and Cyber empowerment. There were numerous studies conducted on technofeminism and cyberfeminism, but they were done using a quantitative method; yet, the researchers have used a qualitative method to analyze the text. This paper explores how Vox interconnects with the concepts of technofeminism and cyberfeminism through the experience of the protagonist Jean’s active fighting against the restriction of the authorities that stop women’s communication with the wrist electronic counter and her intelligence in identifying a new formula for serum. These findings prove the text can examine how technology works as both a tool of oppression and a source of resistance. Further, this study also allows subsequent researchers to explore and incorporate digital-related concepts and theories, such as digital feminism, cyberfeminism, and technofeminism, to analyze the text.