Perception of rape culture on a college campus: A look at social media posts

Giraldi, Ashley; Monk–Turner, Elizabeth

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2017.05.001

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“…Both boys and girls in our study believed it to be part of boys' 'nature' to enjoy watching (semi-)naked girls and women, and interpreted this as an excuse, or at least a mitigating factor, for non-consensual image sharing: 'boys will be boys'. This is consistent with a longer tradition of boys' and men's (hetero)sexuality being regarded as more natural, acceptable and uncontrollable than that of girls and women; a myth that legitimizes sexual violence committed by boys and men (Giraldi & Monk-Turner, 2017). This is not to say that only boys can benefit from non-consensually sharing other people's images.…”

Section: Gendered Sexual Norms and Taboossupporting

confidence: 78%

Only sluts love sexting: youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images

Naezer

Oosterhout²

2020

Journal of Gender Studies

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Interventions aimed at preventing non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images among youth often focus on (potential) victims, who are discouraged from making and sharing such images. This approach is problematic, however: it limits young people's sexual freedom, encourages victim-blaming in case of incidents, and makes perpetrators invisible. This article contributes to scholarship that shifts the focus to perpetrators, by investigating young people's motives for distributing other people's sexual images without their consent. Based on interviews with Dutch young perpetrators, victims and bystanders of non-consensual image sharing, we distinguish different scenarios of and motives for this type of sexual violence. The analysis demonstrates that non-consensual image sharing is a layered, heterogenous problem that is deeply embedded in present-day social norms regarding gender and sexuality. By disentangling the different scenarios of and motives for nonconsensual image sharing as well as the gendered sexual norms and taboos that play a role, we hope to inspire the development of sex(ting)positive, nuanced and diverse interventions for preventing this type of image-based abuse. More research is still needed, however, and in the conclusion we provide several directions for future research.

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Section: Gendered Sexual Norms and Taboossupporting

confidence: 78%

Only sluts love sexting: youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images

Naezer

Oosterhout²

2020

Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Mason et al [12] found that people within academia consider research universities hostile for faculty to necessities of family life. Higher education institutions frequently lack accountability for gender-related inequities [46,47], and the recent controversy about policing microaggressions [48] distracts from the systematic creation of spaces where safety is not evenly distributed. A 2016 survey of American Anthropological Association members affirms this, indicating that “women are significantly more likely than men to have experienced a hostile workplace and most types of unwanted sexual behaviors” and to report that their institution did not handle claims of sexual harassment in accordance with federal law [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions

2018

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Field-based data collection provides an extraordinary opportunity for comparative research. However, the demands of pursuing research away from home creates an expectation of unburdened individuals who have the temporal, financial, and social resources to conduct this work. Here we examine whether this myth of the socially unencumbered scholar contributes to the loss of professionals and trainees. To investigate this, we conducted an internet-based survey of professional and graduate student anthropologists (n = 1025) focused on the challenges and barriers associated with developing and maintaining a fieldwork-oriented career path and an active family life. This study sought to determine how (1) family socioeconomic status impacts becoming an anthropologist, (2) expectations of field-based research influence family planning, and (3) fieldwork experiences influence perceptions of family-career balance and stress. We found that most anthropologists and anthropology students come from educated households and that white men were significantly more likely to become tenured professionals than other demographic groups. The gender disparity is striking because a larger number of women are trained in anthropology and were more likely than men to report delaying parenthood to pursue their career. Furthermore, regardless of socioeconomic background, anthropologists reported significant lack of family-career balance and high stress associated with the profession. For professionals, lack of balance was most associated with gender, age, SES, tenure, and impacts of parenting on their career, while for students it was ethnicity, relative degree speed, graduate funding, employment status, total research conducted, career impact on family planning, and concern with tenure (p < .05). Anthropology bridges the sciences and humanities, making it the ideal discipline to initiate discussions on the embedded structural components of field-based careers generalizable across specialties.

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“…This matrix was used in conjunction with other studies and literature which defined the concept of rape culture in society (Brownmiller, 1975;Gqola, 2015). The initial categories included: victimblaming, perpetrator support, survivor support, statements about the law and society, and the presence of patriarchy (Armstrong & Mahone, 2017;Giraldi & Monk-Turner, 2017;Stubbs-Richardson et al, 2018;Zaleski et al, 2016). Using an unconstrained categorization matrix allowed for inductive principles to filter through the analysis process, by viewing the categories in the matrix as fluid rather than fixed (Cole, 1988;Elo & Kyngäs, 2008).…”

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

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Mukumbang

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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.

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Perception of rape culture on a college campus: A look at social media posts

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

Only sluts love sexting: youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images

Only sluts love sexting: youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images

Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect researcher family planning decisions

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

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