Information communication technology in the fight against sexual human trafficking

Westbrook, Lynn

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Title

Information communication technology in the fight against sexual human trafficking

Author(s)

Westbrook, Lynn

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Social media
• Nonprofit
• Women
• Usability
• Information seeking

Abstract

Information communication technology continues to extend the reach of sexual human traffickers. Interactive dark web sites provide victim photographs to facilitate “shopping” on a global level. Commercial payment and delivery processes remain carefully hidden from international and national law enforcement. While law enforcement is frequently stymied, social service agencies have begun to use internet affordances as their primary tool for making progress at a community level. This study is the first to examine that technological approach to mitigation by analyzing the services and priorities of social service agencies. Content analysis of the web sites of five major U.S. anti-tracking coalitions indicates that there are two top priorities: support for the general public’s education and for varying forms of social activism.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Lynn Westbrook

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