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100			_aMirani, Swati
245			_aEmpowering women through ICTs: Cyber campaigns of violence against women in India
260			_c2014
300			_ap.679-695.
362			_aJul-Sep
520			_aInformation Communication Technologies (ICTs) have emerged out as a powerful tool for social engagement. It play a vital role in shaping social movements, raising awareness, and ultimately giving citizens a voice-setting ground for activism and citizen journalism. Several issues are being discussed worldwide through many types of mobile applications; blogs, social networking websites, accessed using mobile phones worldwide. The issues taken up are cause-related fundraising, lobbying, volunteering, and community building, with an aim to generate people's movements and collective actions disseminating relevant messages across the masses. A worldwide prevalent issue, violence faced by women in various forms, especially in Asian countries, has a profound effect on a woman's life, affecting their participation in different walks of life including workforce, society and political participation; retarding their status in their native society. The article highlights the interaction of youth in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR) with ICTs, especially internet and its applications in e-campaigning on Violence Against Women (VAW) assessed through an online questionnaire. The study findings infer that ICTs are effective agents in galvanizing different forms of online and offline actions concentrating on eliminating VAW worldwide. - Reproduced.
650			_aWomen-Crimes against
650			_aWomen
700			_aMalhotra, Charru
700			_aPannu, Parveen
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a106597
999			_c106592 _d106592