scholarly journals Indian Women in Comedy: An Inquiry into the Perpetuation of Rape Culture on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 26-47
Author(s):  
Mridula Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Indian Women

scholarly journals “These Women are Making a Statement Against Rape and yet the only Thing Y'All can Focus on is ‘Eww They're Naked’”: Exploring Rape Culture on Facebook in South Africa

Gender Issues ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaida Orth ◽  
Michelle Andipatin ◽  
Brian van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Aggressive Male ◽  
Public Reaction

Abstract Sexual assault on campuses has been identified as a pervasive public health problem. In April 2016, students across South African universities launched the #Endrapeculture campaign to express their frustration against university policies which served to perpetuate a rape culture. The use of hashtag activism during the protest served to spark online public debates and mobilize support for the protests. This article describes the public reactions to the South African #Endrapeculture protests on the Facebook social media platform. Data was collected through natural observations of comment threads on news articles and public posts on the student protests, and subjected to content analysis. The findings suggest that the #nakedprotest was successful in initiating public conversations concerning the issue of rape culture. However, the reactions towards the #nakedprotest were divided with some perpetuating a mainstream public discourse which perpetuates rape culture, and others (re)presenting a counter-public that challenged current dominant views about rape culture. Two related main themes emerged: Victim-blaming and Trivialising Rape Culture. Victim-blaming narratives emerged from the commenters and suggested that the protesters were increasing their chances of being sexually assaulted by marching topless. This discourse seems to perpetuate the notion of the aggressive male sexual desire and places the onus on women to protect themselves. Other commenters criticised the #nakedprotest method through demeaning comments which served to derail the conversation and trivialise the message behind the protest. The public reaction to the #nakedprotest demonstrated that rape culture is pervasive in society and continues to be re(produced) through discourse on social media platforms. However, social media also offers individuals the opportunity to draw from and participate in multiple counter-publics which challenge these mainstream rape culture discourses.

scholarly journals Applying Qualitative Methods to Investigate Social Actions for Justice Using Social Media: Illustrations From Facebook

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512091992
Author(s):  
Zaida Orth ◽  
Michelle Andipatin ◽  
Ferdinand C Mukumbang ◽  
Brian van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Decomposition Analysis ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media is becoming a valuable resource for hosting activism as illustrated in the rise of the hashtag movements, such as #MeToo and #Endrapeculture, used to speak out against rape culture. In this article, we discuss the use of social media as the source and object of research, using the case of the 2016 South African #nakedprotest. We used naturalistic observation on Facebook comment threads and followed these up with online Facebook focus groups. Qualitative content analysis and thematic decomposition analysis were used, respectively, to explore online discourses of rape culture. We found that the use of social media as a medium for data collection is valuable for exploring trending social issues such as the rape culture #nakedprotest. We uncovered that social media offers researchers the opportunity to collect, analyze, and triangulate rich qualitative data for the exploration of social phenomena. This study illustrates the usefulness of social media as a pedagogical instrument.

Rape culture and social media: young critics and a feminist counterpublic

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 935-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Sills ◽  
Chelsea Pickens ◽  
Karishma Beach ◽  
Lloyd Jones ◽  
Octavia Calder-Dawe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Rape Culture

Social Media and Technology May Change the Culture of Rape on College Campuses

2019 ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Sherri L. Niblett ◽  
Melissa L. Rakes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Theory ◽  
Social Learning Theory ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Bystander Intervention ◽  
Differential Association ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Differential Association Theory ◽  
Media And Technology

This chapter per the authors identifies the problem of rape culture on college campuses, and within the nation, and the idea that social media and technology have not only brought much-needed attention to the issue of sexual assault and violence to the forefront, but it can also serve as a catalyst for college campuses to combat the issue by enlisting the help of its faculty, staff, students, and especially the college's student celebrities. It examines the effect of Social Learning Theory, Differential Association Theory of Deviance, and Feminism as a means to identify faults in our nation's culture, and to use this same method to correct the attitudes of all involved concerning rape culture, bystander intervention, and other aspects of fighting rape culture through the avenue of social media and technology.

Teen Feminist Digital Activisms

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-174
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessica Ringrose ◽  
Jessalynn Keller
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Sexual Objectification ◽  
Rape Culture ◽  
Teenage Girls ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 7 explores how teen girls are using social media to engage with institutionalized and systematic forms of sexism, sexual objectification, and harassment constitutive of not only what can be termed rape culture but also lad culture in secondary schools in the UK, US, and Canada. The chapter draws on interview data with 27 teenage girls including individual Skype interviews with 11 teen girls in Canada, US, UK, and Ireland and in-person focus groups with 16 girls from a London secondary school feminist club. We show how platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and group chats provide different affordances and vernaculars for girls to challenge rape culture collectively and individually. We focus on the minutia of moments such as when girls challenge a rape joke on Facebook, collectively operate a feminist Twitter account, or negotiate instances of trolling, offering unique insight into the nuances of using social media as teen feminist activists attending school.

Bruised, battered, bleeding: the dangers of mobilising abused goddesses for ‘women’s empowerment’

2019 ◽  
pp. 146470011988623
Author(s):  
Ayesha Vemuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Social Media Networks

In September 2013, images of bruised, bleeding and battered Hindu goddesses went viral on social media networks. Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge), Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) and Durga (the goddess of strength and power) appear as victims of domestic abuse in the Abused Goddesses advertising campaign against domestic violence. In this article, I analyse the Abused Goddesses campaign and the conversations it generated. I argue that it reiterates both a form of Hindu nationalistic discourse as well as longstanding patriarchal, orientalist and neocolonialist perspectives about sexual violence in India. I examine the discourse generated by the Abused Goddesses campaign on social and mainstream media in order to trace how these images were circulated, perceived and engaged with by Indian and international audiences. While the campaign went viral on social media, I argue that its virality offers insufficient conditions for substantial social change around gender violence, including consciousness raising. Through analysis of the campaign and the ways in which it has been commented on, I demonstrate how the representation of domestic violence through the calendar art imagery of abused goddesses ultimately reaffirms classist, casteist, racist, sexist and orientalist discourses about Indian women and the violence they face.

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