Power and Trust Dynamics of Sexual Violence: A Textual Analysis of Nassar Victim Impact Statements and #MeToo Disclosures on Twitter

Eiler, Brian A.; Al‐Kire, Rosemary L.; Doyle, Patrick Charles; Wayment, Heidi A.

doi:10.1123/jcsp.2018-0056

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“…We took the absolute value of these correlations as network analyses are not amenable to negative correlations (cf. Eiler et al, ). Next, these correlations were input into an adjacency matrix to form networks that quantitatively described the language structure for each discussion of the polarized issues.…”

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“…First, we identified recurrent themes in the conversations (Krueger & Casey, 2015;Stewart et al, 2007) and present qualitative results and interpretation for these themes. Second, we employed natural language processing, a machine-learning technique used to quantitatively identify sentiment in language (Crossley et al, 2017), and used results from these analyses to construct networks (e.g., Eiler, Al-Kire, Doyle, & Wayment, 2019;Siew, McCartney, & Vitevitch, 2019) to identify underlying psychological processes leading to group polarization using quadratic assignment procedures (see Robins, Lewis, & Wang, 2012 for a review).…”

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The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

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Political Psychology

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Using focus groups, we examined support and opposition for Donald Trump prior to the 2016 presidential election. When ingroup members participate in discussion, this conversation alone typically strengthens and intensifies members’ initial attitudes. We used a pre‐ to post‐focus‐group questionnaire to assess attitudes toward Trump, his campaign, and policies. We argue that group polarization influenced people’s opinions about Trump such that attitudes became more extreme after discussion with like‐minded individuals. We report changes for Trump nonsupporters for which group polarization occurred on attitudes toward illegal immigration, political correctness, the military, women, and veterans after the group discussion. For each, level of support for Trump’s views decreased. To further explore potential psychological mechanisms associated with group polarization, we employed network science methods to examine the structure of the language associated with these issues and identify potential drivers of attitude change. Results provide some support for a common mechanism for group polarization, which may be driven by language dynamics specific to individual attitudes.

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The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

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Eiler

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Political Psychology

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“…We also recognize the irony in the time frame selected for this study; the media coverage unfolded during an important point of the legal process despite our criticism of ethics of justice. Although it is beyond the scope of this project to cover the extensive body of literature regarding the influence of victim impact statements (e.g., Eiler et al, 2019;Roberts & Erez, 2004), we believe that the inclusion of survivor voices in subsequent media coverage offered an opportunity for open dialogue for other survivors of abuse (Madden & Alt, 2021). Even beyond this study, we believe that open dialogue facilitated by media (both traditional and social) can allow for the interplay of factors of interdependence, relationships, vulnerability, and reciprocity (Fraustino & Kennedy, 2018) in this landscape of care.…”

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More Than a “Bad Apple”: Expanding Care Considerations for Strategic Communication in a Collective Crisis

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2021

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The Larry Nassar case is one of many abuse stories within and beyond sports. Although conventional strategies of image repair such as identifying one “bad apple” are considered effective within an ethics of justice perspective, we argue that crisis responses must adopt an ethics of care when physical and emotional harm has occurred. Using a case study approach, we qualitatively analyzed organizational responses from Michigan State University (MSU), U.S.A. Gymnastics (USAG), and the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), as well as media coverage of Nassar’s sentencing hearing, through Fraustino and Kennedy’s (2018) Applied Model of Care Considerations (AMCC) framework. We theorize how the media landscape creates a space of resistance for survivors that facilitates ethics of care in a collective crisis.

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“…Twitter emerged as a particularly popular social media platform for disclosing personal experiences of sexual victimization using the hashtag #MeToo (Bogen et al, 2018b). Individuals who disclose their experience using the hashtag #MeToo report feeling empowered by the experience (Eiler et al, 2019). Notably, however, efforts to raise awareness of sexual violence via social media have largely focused on women’s victimization experiences (Harlow et al, 2021; PettyJohn et al, 2019; Pipyrou, 2018).…”

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Sexual Victimization Among Men: A Qualitative Analysis of the Twitter Hashtag #UsToo

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J Interpers Violence

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The present study sought to characterize use of the hashtag #UsToo on Twitter to disclose or comment on men’s experiences of sexual victimization. A sample of 281 original content, English-language tweets containing the hashtag were collected from Twitter over five consecutive weekdays. Thematic content analysis was conducted by a three-person coding team (full team consensus, achieving 100% agreement). Researchers categorized tweets as either a disclosure of victimization ( N = 6) or a response to this hashtag ( N = 275). When responding to the hashtag, users commented on the emotional impact of victimization, provided positive responses within the forum (i.e., advocacy, call to action, raising awareness, and prosocial reactions), and also engaged in negative responses within the forum (i.e., distracting attention away from the experiences of victims, egocentric responses which called attention to themselves or others, and otherwise harmful reactions). Despite the popularity of the #MeToo hashtag to disclose personal experiences of violence victimization, Twitter users were unlikely to utilize the hashtag #UsToo to disclose personal experiences of sexual victimization. Results highlight a divergence between online behavior in response to a call for men’s disclosure of sexual victimization using the hashtag #UsToo versus online behavior in response to a call for women’s disclosure of sexual victimization using the hashtag #MeToo.

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Power and Trust Dynamics of Sexual Violence: A Textual Analysis of Nassar Victim Impact Statements and #MeToo Disclosures on Twitter

Cited by 16 publications

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The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

The Effect of Group Polarization on Opposition to Donald Trump

More Than a “Bad Apple”: Expanding Care Considerations for Strategic Communication in a Collective Crisis

Sexual Victimization Among Men: A Qualitative Analysis of the Twitter Hashtag #UsToo

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