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"Take Back the Tech!Inch An offer to map the online gender violence

Added: (Mon Jan 30 2012)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Technologies have transformed the world and sociable ties. Without doubt, we are right now much more interconnected through the Internet as well as social networks, that has been generated, in many cases, more likely to arrange and act collectively.
 
Nevertheless, it is also correct that numerous acts of violence and discrimination are amplified by new technologies.
 
You will find growing cases of harassment, surveillance, cyber, violation of privacy and electronic violence targeting groups on the Internet, due to their gender or sexual identity and politics. Probably the most detrimental is its invisibility. Many of these encounters are not counted or even recorded. This invisibility contains an apparent acceptance that covers further proliferation of these methods, especially in a specific team: women.
 
Because the business Association for Progressive Marketing communications is taking place, till 10 December, ArmA campaign map. Closing violence. Get back the Tech! whose aim would be to ask activists to gather evidence and expand the identification associated with violence against women that contain or have contained technology.
 
What is involved? The concept would be to share experiences and data upon violence against women with the stories themselves, ask friends or even acquaintances to share your story or join additional women to document the cases that were publicly reported.
 
How you can work together? By adding information on the map from the online platform of the Technology! It is a virtual chart to register this new kind of violence and aggression in blogs, photos and dissemination theft by social networks, sending violence through email, amongst others. You are able to do as instructed around the page to add the story or even information.
 
To follow along with the game of the campaign you can visit their social networking profiles
 
@ DominemoslasTIC Facebook group or even the Tech
 
To spread the campaign on Twitter that can be done underneath the hashtags # 16days # # mapeviolencia takebackthetech dominemoslastic #, Number mapealo, # bastadeacoso, # or Number niunamas derechoadecidir
 
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