Rape jokes aren’t funny: the mainstreaming of rape jokes in contemporary newspaper discourse

Lockyer, Sharon; Savigny, Heather

doi:10.1080/14680777.2019.1577285

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“…The inclusion of such can diffuse the impact of content and as a result act as a mask to the severity of the interaction. Sexist humour is recognised as a tool which is adopted in order to normalise and/or trivialise gender-based discrimination (Lockyer & Savigny, 2019). Often the violence targeting the women athletes online was subtle and hidden through humour, therefore reducing its likelihood to be recognised as violent content.…”

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Sporting Women and Social Media: Sexualization, Misogyny, and Gender-Based Violence in Online Spaces

Kavanagh

Litchfield

Osborne

2019

International Journal of Sport Communication

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This study investigated gender-based violence targeting high-profile women in virtual environments through the case of women’s tennis. Using a netnographic approach and the lens of third-wave feminism, 2 popular social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter) were analyzed to examine social commentary and fan interaction surrounding the top-5-seeded female tennis players during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. Athletes were exposed to violent interactions in a number of ways. Four themes were identified through data analysis: threats of physical violence, sexualization that focused on the female physical appearance, sexualization that expressed desire and/or proposed physical or sexual contact, and sexualization that was vile, explicit, and threateningly violent in a sexual or misogynistic manner. Findings demonstrate how social media provides a space for unregulated gender-based cyberhate targeting high-profile women in their workplace in a way that traditional sport media does not.

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Sporting Women and Social Media: Sexualization, Misogyny, and Gender-Based Violence in Online Spaces

Kavanagh

Litchfield

Osborne

2019

International Journal of Sport Communication

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“…the reactionary interpretative frameworks and argumentative strategies of the Facebook discussants. While the results reveal a variety of strategies ranging from polarising (Maaranen and Tienari 2020) and trivialising (Lockyer and Savigny 2020) to distracting (Bogen et al 2019, other discursive strategies such as recalling "individualised responsibility" (Hindes and Fileborn 2019;Worthington 2020) remind us that the interpretative repertoires of the decades-old feminist scholarship and activism motto "the personal is political" (see e.g. Walby 1990;Gavison 1992;Hansson et al 2020) continue within hashtag activism (Clark 2016;Suk et al 2019;Maaranen and Tienari 2020).…”

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The Borders of Personal and Political: Argumentative Analysis of a (Possible) Sexual Harassment Case in the “#MeToo Era”

Valkovičová¹

2021

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Facilitated by the widespread use of the communication tool #MeToo, the online public space has been opening up to survivor stories and is providing interpersonal emotional support to individuals with experiences of sexual harassment or violence. Witnessing the widespread and collective demand for de-stigmatised survivor-centred and empowering approaches to violence, the scholarly community has been discussing these events as the example of (feminist) counter-publics with counter-narratives, or as the "transformative politics of visibility". This case study contemplates the reactionary forces, focusing on negotiating discursive practices which aim to resist (feminist) counter-narratives in the Slovak online environment. We wish to enrich the existing literature by drawing on the developing scholarship of discourse analysis studies in the "#MeToo era" and by looking at the argumentative strategies applied by the discussants with regards to one (potential) case of sexual harassment. We do so by proposing to treat the interpretative frameworks of the discussants as stemming from experiences with dominant media narratives, and as being built around the discursive negotiations of "public-private space" and "personalpolitical issues", well-known to feminist theorisations of sexual harassment and violence since the 1970s.

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“…: 17). Jokes were thus created to deal with the broader social issue (Lockyer & Savigny 2019) and, consequently, were based on generic scripts rather than men's personal experiences.…”

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FEJF

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The introduction to the second part of the special issue, titled "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", focuses on current methodological advances in the field, in particular on mixed-methods approaches and methods for studying digital diasporas as well as some related conceptual concerns, for example, the reemergence and critical revision of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The relevance of the contributions of the current issue to larger tendencies and theoretical debates on mobility and migration is outlined. Similar to the first part of the special issue (Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, Vol. 78), the included articles address a variety of questions and problems concerning migration processes in Eastern European, Baltic, and Nordic contexts, methodologically engaging with virtual and multi-sited ethnography, autoethnography, multimodal analysis, and typologies of multilingual socialization, and utilizing a variety of sources, including archival materials, life writings, and literary production.

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Rape jokes aren’t funny: the mainstreaming of rape jokes in contemporary newspaper discourse

Abstract: Television (I.B.Tauris 2014) and has published in a range of academic journals. She is also the founding co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Comedy book series.

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Sporting Women and Social Media: Sexualization, Misogyny, and Gender-Based Violence in Online Spaces

Sporting Women and Social Media: Sexualization, Misogyny, and Gender-Based Violence in Online Spaces

The Borders of Personal and Political: Argumentative Analysis of a (Possible) Sexual Harassment Case in the “#MeToo Era”

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