Discussing about Sexual Harassment (Breaking Silence): The Role of Technology

Technology can play an important role to flght social problems. We have explored the role of technology in sexual harassment through our yearlong qualitative study on urban female undergraduate students. The existing notion of fear, mistrust and hope towards technology affects the discussion as presented in our research.

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