A High-Tech Twist on Abuse: Technology, Intimate Partner Stalking, and Advocacy
This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document summarizes the existing knowledge on the use of technology to stalk. The author uses both published literature and contributions provided by numerous survivors’ reports to provide current information on the variety of sophisticated tools that are being used to stalk current and former intimate partners. The article also provides specific strategies for advocates, including safety planning information, a resource list, and a handout for survivors.
An Educator's Guide To Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats (pdf)
This document provides information about cyberbullying and cyberthreats for educators and other professionals who focus on youth safety and well-being and sets forth recommendations for a comprehensive school and community based approach to address these concerns.
Australian Institute of Criminology: Cyberstalking (pdf)
This article speaks to the different forms of stalking made possible with the use of the internet. Methods of intervention including legislation are discussed as well.
Handle with Care: A guide to responsible media reporting of violence against women (pdf)
A useful and clear guide designed for journalists reporting or writing on violence against women. This guide is an attempt to lay down some common sense standards and procedures for reporting on men’s violence against women, in all its forms. The proposals for best practice go further than the legal requirements on journalists. They form a handbook of moral guidance.
Helpful or Harmful?: How Innovative Communication Technology Affects Survivors of Intimate Violence
This paper explores: 1) the prevalence of web usage by both survivors of intimate violence and the organizations that serve them; 2) the ways in which batterers misuse communication technology to monitor and control their partners activities; and 3) precautions that survivors and organizations can employ to safeguard themselves from liability, harm, and ethical conundrums.
Article on how to erase history lists and cache files on your browser.
Pornography and Sexual Violence
This paper explores possible connections between men's use of pornography and sexual violence, and highlights definitions of terms, appropriate methods of investigation, relevant aspects of current disputes, and how pornography reinforces and sexualizes a subordinate status of women.
Survivors of Intimate Violence Seek Help Online: Implications of Responding to Increasing Requests
March 19, 2001. This article documents a one-year study of unsolicited email requests sent to Violence Against Women Online Resources. This article explores some of the implications of responding to requests from survivors online; and seeks to raise awareness about one particular website's increasing number of electronic help-seeking requests. The author calls for a national discussion on responding to such requests and underscores the importance of developing a strategic plan to address the issue.
Warning!!: How an Abuser Can Discover Your Internet Activities (pdf)
This article discusses email safety and methods for clearing the computer cache of visited sites.