Domestic violence is something that reaches every corner of American life.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence tells us that 85% of the people who suffer violence at the hands of an intimate partner are women.
One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. That’s 1.3 million women each and every year. And most of these women have mobile phones, computers, facebook pages, or some kind of an online presence.
The presence of these information communication technologies presents ever-growing challenges to a survivor trying to stay well away from an abusive partner.
Just how do these technologies influence interpersonal violence?
Jill Dimond is a computer science graduate from the University of Michigan. After she earned her PhD at Georgia Tech, she focused her efforts on what she calls "Human Centered Computing."
That includes forming a worker-owner technology cooperative called Sassafras Tech Collective helping social justice groups, non-profits, artists and others with web and app design and development.
For more information on online safety for survivors of domestic abuse, go to the National Network to End Domestic Violence.
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