The Global Diffusion of the #MeToo Movement

Lee, Myung‐Hee; Murdie, Amanda

doi:10.1017/s1743923x20000148

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“…We proceed to discussing how the previously mentioned exogenous shocks may influence the relationships discussed above. Although the #MeToo movement began in 2006, it gained global recognition after Alyssa Milano’s 2017 call for people who had been harassed or assaulted to engage with the movement (Lee and Murdie, 2021). In her call to action, Milano discussed using social media as a vehicle to bring attention to issues such as gender harassment (Brown and Battle, 2020).…”

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#MeToo, Covid-19 and the new workplace: re-examining institutional discrimination's impact on workplace harassment of expatriates following two exogenous shocks

Obenauer

Rezaei

2023

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PurposeReplication is essential to science for the purpose of (1) updating previously accepted knowledge and (2) testing the boundary conditions of this knowledge. Although Bader et al.’s (2018) impactful paper on gender harassment experienced by expatriates was only published five years ago, there have been two relevant exogenous shocks to the environment since they collected their data, making this study an excellent target for replication.Design/methodology/approachThree-hundred ninety-one expatriates who were currently working in 79 different countries completed an electronic survey that included scales for gender harassment, ethnicity harassment, general stress, frustration and job satisfaction. Data were analyzed using partial least-squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) in Stata17.FindingsConsistent with prior research, gender had a significant relationship with workplace gender harassment (ß = 0.228, p < 0.001) such that males experienced lower levels of harassment than other expatriates. The relationship between race/ethnicity and experiences of ethnicity harassment was dependent upon model specification. Workplace harassment had a negative relationship with job satisfaction (gender harassment, ß = −0.114, p = 0.030; ethnicity harassment; ß = −0.146, p = 0.002) and a positive relationship with frustration (gender harassment, ß = 0.231, p < 0.001; ethnicity harassment, ß = 0.213, p < 0.001).Originality/valueUsing a larger, more diverse sample than that used in prior research, the authors were able to test the generalizability of accepted knowledge. While the authors replicated many findings identified in prior research, they failed to replicate the effects pertaining to the relationship between macro-level variables and experiences of harassment. Given that macro-level variables play a key role in status construction theory (SCT), this research raises important questions for future work.

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“…#MeToo trending. Lee and Murdie (2021) collected data on the #MeToo hashtag by country from July 20 to July 25, 2019 and from September 15 to September 21, 2019. These data were obtained from the authors.…”

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#MeToo, Covid-19 and the new workplace: re-examining institutional discrimination's impact on workplace harassment of expatriates following two exogenous shocks

Obenauer

Rezaei

2023

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“…4 Nevertheless, recalling a notorious statement by the American Psychological Association from 1993, even in the US, sexual harassment seemed to be a "problem with a long past, but a short history" (Rothgerber et al 2020). Fast forward to nearly three decades later, and the growing public opposition to sexism, harassment and violence is attributable to the possibilities of the interconnected public space of social media, in what is often labelled as the "#MeToo movement" (Lee and Murdie 2020).…”

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“…Nevertheless, Lee and Murdie (2020) posit that studying the construction and negotiation of discourses on sexual harassment and violence of the "#MeToo era" in the online environment requires the consideration of the local cultural context, including the possibilities of the political and legal conditions. In order to understand how individuals make sense of and deploy the narratives of harassment and violence, we need to look at the recent developments of the legal framework, as well as the resonance of public discourses, especially those of the mainstream media.…”

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The Borders of Personal and Political: Argumentative Analysis of a (Possible) Sexual Harassment Case in the “#MeToo Era”

Valkovičová¹

2021

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Facilitated by the widespread use of the communication tool #MeToo, the online public space has been opening up to survivor stories and is providing interpersonal emotional support to individuals with experiences of sexual harassment or violence. Witnessing the widespread and collective demand for de-stigmatised survivor-centred and empowering approaches to violence, the scholarly community has been discussing these events as the example of (feminist) counter-publics with counter-narratives, or as the "transformative politics of visibility". This case study contemplates the reactionary forces, focusing on negotiating discursive practices which aim to resist (feminist) counter-narratives in the Slovak online environment. We wish to enrich the existing literature by drawing on the developing scholarship of discourse analysis studies in the "#MeToo era" and by looking at the argumentative strategies applied by the discussants with regards to one (potential) case of sexual harassment. We do so by proposing to treat the interpretative frameworks of the discussants as stemming from experiences with dominant media narratives, and as being built around the discursive negotiations of "public-private space" and "personalpolitical issues", well-known to feminist theorisations of sexual harassment and violence since the 1970s.

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“…Because of the way Twitter is structured (e.g., its emphasis on concision, the retweet function), tweets and their hashtags have the potential for a very broad reach and to encourage the rapid spread of information beyond the author’s visible network, gathering quickly attention to a cause (Dadas 2017 )—sometimes globally, even if contextual realities, institutional norms and local politics can constrain and (re)frame the issues discussed in the Twittersphere (Ofori-Parku and Moscato 2018 ). Consider, for instance, the notorious case of the #MeToo movement and its transnational dimension (Xiong et al 2019 ; Lee and Murdie 2020 ).…”

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To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

2022

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In the context of the COVID-19 health crisis, the use of face masks has been a topic broadly debated. In many Western countries, especially at the heights of the pandemic, discussions on the use of protective facemasks were often linked to what were mainly political considerations, often fueled by health-related misinformation. Our study brings together social sciences and computer science expertise to retrospectively unpack the #NoMask discourses and conversations using both network analysis approaches on big data retrieved from Twitter and qualitative analyses on sub-sets of relevant social media data. By looking comparatively at two dataset gathered at different stages of the health crisis (2020 and 2022), we aim to better understand the role of Twitter in that interesting area where the dissemination of health misinformation became capitalized by the political narrative linking the social discontent caused by the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic to specific political ideologies. Our analyses show that there has never been a unique ‘NoMask movement,’ nor a defined online community. Rather, we can identify a range of relatively niche, loosely connected, and heterogeneous actors that, in the course of the pandemic, independently pushed diverse (but converging and compatible) discourses. Conversations directly linked to the #NoMask relevant hashtags are overall limited, as twitters using them are not talking to each other; nonetheless, they successfully engaged a larger audience.

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The Global Diffusion of the #MeToo Movement

Cited by 20 publications

References 51 publications

#MeToo, Covid-19 and the new workplace: re-examining institutional discrimination's impact on workplace harassment of expatriates following two exogenous shocks

#MeToo, Covid-19 and the new workplace: re-examining institutional discrimination's impact on workplace harassment of expatriates following two exogenous shocks

The Borders of Personal and Political: Argumentative Analysis of a (Possible) Sexual Harassment Case in the “#MeToo Era”

To wear or not to wear? Unpacking the #NoMask discourses and conversations on Twitter

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