Nonparticipation of bangladeshi women in #MeToo movement

Hassan, Naeemul; Mandal, Manash Kumar; Bhuiyan, Mansurul; Moitra, Aparna; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque

doi:10.1145/3287098.3287125

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“…Facebook posts and news feeds in other SM platforms played a significant role to trigger and spark this movement (Khan, 2018). The use of SM for enabling social movements is a relatively new phenomenon in Bangladesh, as there very few related studies, such as those analyzing theShahbagh movement for demanding the trial of war criminals (Sinha, 2013; Zamir, 2014; Zaman, 2018; Roy, 2018), the student movement for a safer road (Rahman, 2018) and the # MeToo movement (Hassan, 2019) have been focused on the use of SM. In this present study, we were interested in investigating how SM has increased participation in the quota reform movement (QRM) in Dhaka University.…”

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Perceived value of social media in students’ participation in social movement

Akter

Islam

2019

DLP

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the use of social media (SM) and its influence for increasing students’ participation in the quota reform movement at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach The revised technology acceptance model (TAM) was used to formulate this research’s hypotheses. A survey was administered to obtain data about students’ intention to use SM. The survey consisted of a set of questions based upon the revised TAM model. A total of 498 surveys were distributed and 304 students responded to it; hence, response rate was of 61.04%. A regression and single way ANOVA were conducted to test the hypotheses. Findings The results indicate that most of the students use SM for academic purposes and to get connected with friends. Among the social networking tools, Facebook is the most widely used by the respondents. Findings supported that perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of SM affect student’s intention to increase participation in the quota reform movement. There were no significant relationships between gender and politics with the use of SM. Research limitations/implications A sample of students from Dhaka University was taken and the sample size was small. As a result, the findings of this study cannot be generalized in other settings. SM has a positive effect in the societies where change happens through collective actions. Originality/value Why and how students use SM has been widely discussed over the available literature, but students’ intention to use for it for social movements has not been studied. This study has made an effort to empirically examine the use of SM in the context of the quota reform movement in Bangladesh.

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Perceived value of social media in students’ participation in social movement

Akter

Islam

2019

DLP

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“…While this movement successfully triggered the academia, industry, and showbiz, the harassment of a large group of women from other professions, class, and social status remained beyond its scope. Also, reports show that #MeToo in Bangladesh was less successful than expected because of cultural differences, lack of hope, and a lacking reliance on alternatives [43,66].…”

Section: Online Gender Movements and Protestsmentioning

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“…This call for sharing harassment experiences with #MeToo hashtag followed Milano's own story of being sexually abused [63] and millions of women joined this movement. Some literature sees #MeToo as a descendent of prior #MyHarveyWeinstein, #YouOkSis, and #SurvivorPrivilege movements [42,66] and argue that it only gained prominence when several Hollywood female celebrities came out with their stories of sexual harassment [79].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within a few days, #MeToo reached the Indian subcontinent, as many women flooded Twitter and other social media platforms with stories of their sexual harassment [43,58,66]. However, this wave also faced a similar backlash that victims here felt discomfort in disclosing stories of harassment if their harassers were someone in the upper level of the power structure.…”

Section: Online Gender Movements and Protestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

Sultana

Deb

Bhattacharjee

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Women in the global south often seek justice of online harassment through unavailing the harassers and the screenshots of their sent harassment texts and visual contents on social media. However, women often experience further backlash with the argument that these screenshots may have been manipulated. We studied these issues through a survey with 91 female Facebook users and interviews with 43 females and other stakeholders from Bangladesh and designed 'Unmochon'-a tool that helps women collect such harassment texts and visual contents from Facebook Messenger, share with their intended group of users and prove their authenticity. Our user-study with 48 participants revealed various challenging aspects of seeking justice on social media using such technologies and the assumptions they are built on. Based these findings, we further discuss how technologies should be designed to address women's harassment on social media in such a complex social setting.

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“…Bangladesh earned nearly $800 million in 2017, exporting locally made software and providing services like outsourcing and freelance work [123]. This connectivity has turned out to be a double-edged sword because the Internet has contributed to human and economic development, but at the same time, this has also often plunged people of Bangladesh into some other threats (see [3,55,89,90,96,105], for example), including this important one: exposure to online misinformation.…”

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Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users

Haque,

Yousuf,

Alam

et al. 2020

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There has been a growing interest within CSCW community in understanding the characteristics of misinformation propagated through computational media, and the devising techniques to address the associated challenges. However, most work in this area has been concentrated on the cases in the western world leaving a major portion of this problem unaddressed that is situated in the Global South. This paper aims to broaden the scope of this discourse by focusing on this problem in the context of Bangladesh, a country in the Global South. The spread of misinformation on Facebook in Bangladesh, a country with a population of over 163 million, has resulted in chaos, hate attacks, and killings. By interviewing journalists, fact-checkers, in addition to surveying the general public, we analyzed the current state of verifying misinformation in Bangladesh. Our findings show that most people in the 'news audience' want the news media to verify the authenticity of online information that they see online. However, the newspaper journalists say that fact-checking online information is not a part of their job, and it is also beyond their capacity given the amount of information being published online every day. We further find that the voluntary fact-checkers in Bangladesh are not equipped with sufficient infrastructural support to fill in this gap. We show how our findings are connected to some of the core concerns of CSCW community around social media, collaboration, infrastructural politics, and information inequality. From our analysis, we also suggest several pathways to increase the impact of fact-checking efforts through collaboration, technology design, and infrastructure development.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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Nonparticipation of bangladeshi women in #MeToo movement

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

Perceived value of social media in students’ participation in social movement

Perceived value of social media in students’ participation in social movement

‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

Combating Misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and Responsibilities as Perceived by Journalists, Fact-checkers, and Users

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