Women and Girls and Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 86-103
Author(s):  
Lillian Vega-Castaneda ◽  
Mario Castaneda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Women And Girls

To Protect and Responsibilize: The Discursive Explosion of Combining Youth Sexuality, Human Trafficking, and Online Spaces

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-83
Author(s):  
Katrin Roots ◽  
Emily Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Risk Takers ◽  
Victim Vulnerability

The emergence of social media and digital technologies has resulted in new protectionist laws, policies, and mandates aimed at regulating the sexual behaviour of women and girls in online spaces. These neoliberal responsiblization strategies are aimed at shaping good, young digital citizens and have become further amplified through increased concerns about domestic human trafficking and victim vulnerability. This protectionism, however, is not always reflected in courtroom proceedings, revealing a tension between the protection and responsiblization of victims of trafficking in Canada. Using R v Oliver-Machado (2013) as a case study, we examine the ways in which the defence counsel’s reliance on commonplace defence tactics used in sexual assault cases responsibilize the young complainants in an attempt to discredit their victimhood and reconstruct them as online sexual risk takers.

Femininity, Shame, and Redemption

Hypatia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Mann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Ecological Niche ◽  
Central Mechanism ◽  
The West ◽  
Women And Girls

At a time when some modicum of formal gender equality has been won in many late‐capitalist societies of the West, what explains the persistence of practices that extract labor and value from women and girls while granting a “surplus” of value to men and boys? Gendered shame is a central mechanism of the apparatus that secures the continued subordination of women across a number of class and race contexts in the mediatized, late‐capitalist West. Focusing on the story of Amanda Todd, two forms of shame are distinguished. “Ubiquitous shame” is that shame that accrues to feminine existence as such, and is structured in relation to a futural temporality of redemption. “Unbounded shame” is a brute form of value‐extraction that has found its ecological niche in social media—and destroys all futural aspirations.

scholarly journals A Social Media Analysis of the Gendered Representations of Female and Male Athletes During the 2018 Commonwealth Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-695
Author(s):  
Elaine Chiao Ling Yang ◽  
Michelle Hayes ◽  
Jinyan Chen ◽  
Caroline Riot ◽  
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Commonwealth Games

Contemporary sport culture is characterized as highly masculinized, where female athletes are continually marginalized in traditional media. Despite evidence suggesting that media representation of athletes has a meaningful impact on social outcomes and participation rates of women and girls, little is known about gendered representations of athletes on social media and in the context of mega-sporting events. This paper examines the gendered representations of athletes on Twitter during the 2018 Commonwealth Games using framing theory. A total of 133,338 tweets were analyzed using sentiment and word-frequency analyses. Results indicate gender differences concerning athlete representation on Twitter, albeit marginal. In particular, the findings reveal that seemingly neutral words (e.g., “dedicated,” “talented,” and “hard working”) could carry gendered connotations. Recommendations are provided to guide stakeholders to advance a more inclusive sport culture through the strategic use of social media during mega-sporting events.

scholarly journals Exploring cyber violence against women and girls in the Philippines through Mining Online News

Comunicar ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
January Febro-Naga ◽  
Mia-Amor Tinam-isan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Online News ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Women And Girls

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is not a recent phenomenon. What is new is the additional increasing threats that millions of women and girls face because of the rapid spread of ICTs and the expansion of social media. Cases of VAWG wherein ICT and social media are used as platforms by cybercriminals can be seen in the news media coverage. This study aims to understand and determine the trend and the state of cyber VAWG to raise awareness through mining online news websites. News articles were scraped from popular news websites between 2015 to 2020. The preprocessed articles (N=3,506) were analyzed by year using the Topic Keyword Model (TKM). It was observed that the cyber VAWG articles topic trends are increasing with most of the articles focusing on the topics “Online sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children” and “ICT-related violations of privacy”. Text mining methods may address the limitations of traditional qualitative approaches. Understanding the cyber VAWG issues by mining news articles is a novel approach that could help create programs and policies to address this societal concern. Additional studies should be conducted related to sentiment analysis of news data to verify and measure the influence of cyber VAWG-related topics. La violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas (VCMN) no es un fenómeno nuevo. Lo nuevo son los crecientes peligros a que se enfrentan los millones de mujeres y niñas debido a la difusión de las TIC y redes sociales. Los casos de la VCMN donde se utilizan como plataformas las TIC y las redes sociales se encuentran fácilmente por medio de la cobertura mediática. Este estudio tiene como objetivo la comprensión y la definición de la tendencia y el estado de la ciber-VCMN para crear conciencia por medio del análisis de los sitios web de noticias online. Entre 2015 y 2020, se recopilaron artículos de los principales sitios de noticias. Se utilizó el Modelo de palabras claves temáticas para evaluar los artículos preprocesados (N=3.506) por año. Se señaló que la mayoría de los artículos sobre ciber-VCMN se centraban en temas de «Explotación sexual y abuso sexual de niños en línea» y «Violaciones de la privacidad relacionadas con las TIC». El análisis de los textos ayuda a trascender las limitaciones de las metodologías cualitativas tradicionales. Comprender las preocupaciones de la ciber-VCMN mediante la extracción de artículos de noticias podría ayudar a crear iniciativas y políticas para solucionar este problema. Proponemos que se lleve a cabo una investigación utilizando análisis de sentimiento de los datos de noticias para verificar y cuantificar el impacto de los problemas relacionados con la ciber-VCMN.

scholarly journals Crime Detection Using Sentiment Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Ruba Khan ◽  
Shadab Siddiqui ◽  
Abhishek Rastogi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Crime Detection ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Indian Cities

Women and girls have been subjected to a great deal of violence and harassment in public locations around the country, ranging from stalking to abuse harassment and assault. This research paper examines the role of social media in improving women's safety in Indian cities, with a focus on the use of social media websites and apps such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This research also looks at how ordinary Indians can develop a sense of responsibility in Indian society so that we can focus on the protection of women in their surroundings. Tweets on the safety of women in Indian cities, which often include images and text as well as written phrases and quotations, can be used to send a message to the Indian youth culture and encourage them to take harsh action and punish those who harass women. Twitter and other Twitter handles that feature hash tag messages are extensively used throughout the world as a channel for women to share their feelings about how they feel when going to work or travelling by public transportation and what is their mental condition when they are surrounded by unknown males, and do they feel safe or not?

Women in Academia Matter

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Taima Moeke-Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Women Academics ◽  
Women In Academia ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Women And Girls

Empowering women in academia matters. As women academics, we need to unleash our leadership power if we want to make a change. Colonization sexualized, subjugated, and dehumanized women and girls and unfortunately continues in the academy today. This is evidenced by pay, hiring, racism, and leadership inequity. This chapter shares the meaning and value of Indigenous worldviews, women movements in social media, and why systemic strategies for sustained equity, diversity, and inclusivity in the academy matters. This is a huge responsibility and commitment. The author's experience working with women academics is that they take their role seriously, they use instinct, they defend when they need to, they are creative, they spend a lot of time on the whys, they use diplomacy and often put their own feelings aside to make sure that equity goals for women are achieved.

Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Media

Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

Doctors employ social media

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Jane Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media
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