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In the Apple store alone, there are now over 2 million apps available. Some help us listen to music, talk to our friends, track our steps or complete tasks\u2014but there are also apps for more serious purposes. In the past few years, several apps have been designed to address things like sexual violence. The goal is often to prevent abuse or violence before it happens. But who\u2019s making these apps? And what kind of values and norms go into their design?<\/p>\n

By dissecting 215 apps aimed to address sexual violence, Rena Bivens<\/a> is exploring how politics, values and norms are embedded in technology\u2014by designers, programmers, and stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Her research interests begin with the idea that technology is never neutral.<\/p>\n

\u201cSoftware can hide things,\u201d she says. \u201cIt can seem really progressive on the surface, but there are troubling things happening underneath that get buried further and further.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her interest in apps came from watching what people in the anti-violence sector were doing with technology. She became curious about what she calls \u2018the hidden politics of design\u2019. So far, Bivens\u2019 has found that many common myths about rape, myths that feminists have been trying to unpack and dispel for years, are often embedded in these apps.<\/p>\n

For example, many of them feature a \u201cpanic button\u201d which sends the users\u2019 GPS coordinates to their network if pressed. Bivens says that feature is designed with the assumption that sexual violence is usually committed by a random stranger in a public place. \u201cBut we know that\u2019s most often not the case,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

While Bivens doesn\u2019t believe technology alone can solve the issue of sexual violence, she\u2019s curious about how society has to change\u2014and how technology also has to change\u2014in order to move forward.<\/p>\n

Bivens\u2019 project draws on ideas from many different disciplines from design and human-computer interaction, to computer science, to feminist and queer theories.<\/p>\n

In general, Bivens is interested in the broader relationship between technology and society, and the emergence of gender, race, and violence is central to her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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