Shifting the Rape Script<sup>*</sup>

Loney-Howes, Rachel

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“…Scholars, for example, have documented the rise of various digital feminist campaigns and feminist hashtags that speak to broader issues of violence against women and rape culture on social media (e.g. Fileborn, 2019;Loney-Howes, 2018;Mendes et al, 2018b). 1 Social media are "web-based services that allow individuals, communities, and organizations to collaborate, connect, interact, and build community by enabling them to create, co-create, modify, share, and engage with user-generated content that is easily accessible" (McCay-Peet and Quan-Haase, 2017: 17).…”

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Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

Quan‐Haase

Mendes

Ho³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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A tweet by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano using Tarana Burke’s phrase “me too” sparked a global movement. Despite the media attention #MeToo has garnered, little is known about how scholars have studied the movement. Through a synthesis review covering sources from 2006 to 2019, we learned that in this time period only 22 studies examined participation on social media such as Twitter and Facebook. We conclude that more research needs to be conducted, particularly to fill a gap in qualitative studies that directly engage individuals, to learn about their experiences with the movement. While #MeToo is a global movement, the omission of any reference to geography or a lack of geographic diversity suggests a narrow focus on scholarship based in the Global North. There is a need for more cross-cultural analysis to gain a better understanding of the movement as it evolves over time and moves into different spaces.

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Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

Quan‐Haase

Mendes

Ho³

et al. 2021

New Media & Society

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“…About half of the articles (N = 10) contained an explicitly formulated research question (Andalibi et al, 2016;Andalibi et al, 2018;Bogen, Bleiweiss, & Orchowski, 2018a;Barta, 2019;Fileborn, 2017;Loney-Howes, 2018;Lowenstein-Barkai, 2020;Masciantonio et al, 2020;Mendes, Keller & Ringrose, 2019;Schneider & Carpenter, 2020). The various research questions were aimed at answering questions about what victims of sexual violence share online (Andalibi et al, 2016;Mendes et al, 2019), what motivations and goals victims have to share their story online (Barta, 2019;Masciantonio et al, 2020) and what kind of responses online disclosures of sexual victimisation elicit (Andalibi et al, 2018;Barta, 2019;Bogen et al, 2018a).…”

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“…The various research questions were aimed at answering questions about what victims of sexual violence share online (Andalibi et al, 2016;Mendes et al, 2019), what motivations and goals victims have to share their story online (Barta, 2019;Masciantonio et al, 2020) and what kind of responses online disclosures of sexual victimisation elicit (Andalibi et al, 2018;Barta, 2019;Bogen et al, 2018a). Furthermore, online disclosure and responses to online disclosure were considered in relation to social support (Andalibi et al, 2016, Andalibi et al, 2018Barta, 2019;Lowenstein-Barkai, 2020), coping (Barta, 2019;Schneider & Carpenter, 2020), visibility (Andalibi et al, 2016;Andalibi et al, 2018;Barta, 2019) and activist goals (Fileborn, 2017;Loney-Howes, 2018). The other studies merely mentioned the aim of the research instead of formulating a specific research question.…”

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“…The studies were largely qualitative in nature (N = 15). Two studies were quantitative (Lowenstein-Barkai, 2020;Modrek & Chakalov, 2019) and seven used mixed methods (Andalibi et al, 2016;Andalibi et al, 2018;Dancig-Rosenberg & Peleg, 2020a, 2020b, 2020cFileborn, 2017;Lokot, 2018;Loney-Howes, 2018;Schneider & Carpenter, 2020).…”

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“…In four studies victims were interviewed (Barta, 2019;Dancig-Rosenberg & Peleg, 2020a, 2020b, 2020cGundersen & Zaleski, 2020;Loney-Howes, 2018), of which one study combined both a content analysis with interviews (Loney-Howes, 2018). Finally, two studies consisted of a survey (Dancig-Rosenberg & Peleg, 2020b;Masciantonio et al, 2020) and one study used a survey design and a focus group (Fileborn, 2017).…”

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Online disclosure of sexual victimisation: A systematic review

Gorissen¹,

Berg²,

Bijleveld³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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We map the available scientific literature on how and why victims of sexual violence are using digital platforms in the aftermath of victimisation. Twenty-four empirical studies on sexual victimisation and online disclosure were identified by systematically searching Web of Science and PsycINFO, checking reference lists and consulting authors about relevant publications. The literature on online disclosure of sexual victimisation does not yield a coherent picture. International literature pays limited attention to the various components of online disclosure like the characteristics of victims who disclosure online and the characteristics of the disclosure messages. Most studies focused on motivations for and reactions to online disclosure. Victims of sexual violence disclose sexual victimisation online to seek support, for clarification and validation, unburdening, documenting, seeking justice, informing others or commercial goals (individual-oriented disclosure) and to provide support, educate and as a form of activism (other-oriented disclosure). Responses to online disclosure are predominantly positive, containing advocacy and support. Negative responses are rare. This review provides a comprehensive overview of multidisciplinary empirical information and displays knowledge gaps in victimological research. Future research should use a robust quantitative and/or qualitative design with a substantial sample size, comparing victims who do disclose their sexual victimisation online with victims who do not, and compare disclosure on different online platforms to increase generalisability of the results. Potential for online informal support is identified, in which online disclosure can serve as a relatively safe alternative to offline disclosure. This offers important points of intervention for assistance and victim support by social workers in facilitating the use of the internet for support for victims of sexual violence.

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Digitised Narratives of Rape: Disclosing Sexual Violence Through Pain Memes

Mendes

Belisário

Ringrose

2019

Rape Narratives in Motion

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In this paper, we argue that social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter have facilitated an emergence of 'digitized narratives' of sexual violence. These narratives are rooted in historical ways in which feminists have discursively articulated sexual violence, yet are shaped by distinctive 'platform vernacular' (Gibbs et al., 2015) or the conventions, affordances and restrictions of the platforms in which they appear. Drawing on a qualitative content and critical discourse analysis of 450 texts from the Tumblr site Who Needs Feminism? and the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported, we argue that digital platforms such as Tumblr and Twitter produce new vernacular practices which shape how 'digitized narratives' of sexual violence are not only disclosed and known, but felt and experienced across digital networks.

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Shifting the Rape Script^*

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Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

Online disclosure of sexual victimisation: A systematic review

Digitised Narratives of Rape: Disclosing Sexual Violence Through Pain Memes

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Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms

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