Technology Content Topic Results
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January 2013
Send Me a Pic, Babe: How Everyone on the Web Gets to See You In Your Bra & Panties
This PPT presentation offers a simple way to introduce the implications of sexting for teens in dating relationships to a general audience. While it describes legal provisions in Vermont, the content can be adapted for use elsewhere.
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January 2013
Technology Safety Plan: A Guide for Survivors and Advocates
Publisher(s):This guide includes information about safety planning with survivors of domestic and sexual violence, stalking and trafficking in situations of technology abuse.
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January 2013
The Digital Abuse Study: Experiences of Teens and Young Adults
Publisher(s):This study provides an in-depth look at the prevalence of digital abuse among young people. It was designed to quantify how young people are affected by and respond to issues like sexting, digital harassment, and digital dating abuse, and to analyze changing trends.
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January 2013
Who's Spying on Your Computer? Spyware, Surveillance, and Safety for Survivors
Publisher(s):Do you want to know what spyware is, how it works, how it can end up secretly monitoring your computer? This handout answers those questions, discusses risks, and provides safety tips for survivors of abuse, for organizations that assist victims, and for parents.
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January 2013
Technology, Teen Dating Violence and Abuse, and Bullying
Publisher(s):This study examines the role of youth technology use in teen dating violence and abuse and bullying and expand knowledge about the types of violence and abuse experiences youth have, the extent of victimization and perpetration via technology and new media, and how the experience of such cyber abuse within teen dating relationships or through bullying relates to other life factors.
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January 2013
Breathe2Relax
Publisher(s): This mobile app provides exercises to help uses manage stress.
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November 2012
Technology and Human Trafficking: The Rise of Mobile and the Diffusion of Technology-Facilitated Trafficking
Publisher(s): This article examines the ways in which the business of human trafficking is increasingly taking place online and over mobile phones, and explores the potential for the same technologies that are being used for trafficking to become powerful tools to combat trafficking.
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August 2012
In Virtual Play, Sex Harassment Is All Too Real
Publisher(s):The article reports, Sexism, racism, homophobia and general name-calling are longstanding facts of life in certain corners of online video games. But the Cross Assault episode was the first of a series this year that have exposed the severity of the harassment that many women experience in virtual gaming communities.
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June 2012
GPS Monitoring Technologies and Domestic Violence: An Evaluation Study
This report describes a study of the use of GPS monitoring technology to enforce no contact orders in domestic abuse cases. The report outlines some of the benefits and burdens of GPS monitoring, as well as policy implications and the importance of maintaining relationships with survivors.
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May 2012
Lack of Online Privacy Rights Is Very Troubling
Publisher(s):In this podcast, ABA Journal web producer Lee Rawles talks with Lori Andrews, author of I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy about the lack of online privacy rights and the need for a social media constitution.
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February 2012
Cyberbullying and Sexual Harassment: FAQs about Cyberbullying and Title IX
Publisher(s):This fact sheet describes cyberbullying, its intersections with sexual harassment, and the application of Title IX which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools. It provides guidance to schools, students, and families in addressing these crimes.
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January 2012
Safety Tips For Using Computers & Cell Phones
Publisher(s):Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV), Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape (PCAR)
This handout developed for survivors of domestic and sexual violence provides tips for the safer use of computers and cell phones. It reviews privacy settings, passwords, GPS tracking, and documentation.









