#WhyITold: A Pilot Test of Twitter Messages Aimed at Promoting Bystander Intervention against Domestic Violence

Wong, Norman C. H.; Bostwick, Eryn N.

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“…The impact of social media content on user attitudes and behavior is well established. For example, such influence has been observed in the context of exercise ( Carpenter & Amaravadi, 2019 ), alcohol use ( Litt & Stock, 2011 ), racism ( Munger, 2017 ), and domestic violence intervention ( Wong & Bostwick, 2017 ). It is possible that these behavioral changes occur due to individual changes in perceptions of normative behaviour.…”

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Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

Lyons

Rowe

Waddington

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J Interpers Violence

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Previous research has established the importance of socially aversive personality traits (i.e., the Dark Triad) in rape cognitions (operationalized here as rape-supportive attitudes, rape victim empathy, and hostile masculinity). However, less is known about how sexist social media content influences attitudes toward rape cognitions depending on the personality of the individual. In an online experiment, after completing the Short Dark Triad-3 questionnaire, participants ( N = 180) were primed with either sexist or neutral tweets, rating them for acceptability, humor, rudeness, and ignorance. Participants then completed scales for rape-supportive attitudes, victim empathy, and hostile masculinity. Sexist tweets were rated as significantly less acceptable and humorous, and more rude and ignorant than neutral tweets. However, those high in the Dark Triad found the sexist tweets as funny and acceptable. Overall, exposure to the sexist tweets did not increase rape cognitions. Moreover, the Dark Triad traits had similar significant, positive correlations with rape-supportive attitudes, victim blame, and hostile masculinity in both sexist and neutral tweet conditions. Multiple regression analyses (controlling for gender) revealed that psychopathy was the strongest positive predictor for increased rape cognitions. Findings suggest that short exposure to sexist social media content may not influence rape cognitions, but that dispositional factors such as psychopathy are more important.

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Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

Lyons

Rowe

Waddington

et al. 2021

J Interpers Violence

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“…Social media now play a central role in providing a platform for people to discuss a range of contemporary social issues, including terror attacks (Cheong & Lee, 2011; Crijns, Hudders, & Cauberghe, 2017), institutional sexism (Fox, Cruz, & Lee, 2015), right-wing extremism (Hartung, Klinger, Schmidtke, & Vogel, 2017), domestic violence (Wong & Bostwick, 2017), online misogyny (Banet-Weiser & Miltner, 2016), and more. In this vein, gender politics has come to the fore in recent years, particularly following the revelation of sexual abuse in journalism, politics, and the movie industry (Almukhtar, Gold, & Buchanan, 2018), high-profile stories of sexual harassment like “Gamergate” (Massanari, 2017), Donald Trump’s infamous “grab them by the pussy” exposé (Maas, McCauley, Bonomi, & Leija, 2018), and many more examples of male privilege, toxic masculinity, and sexual violence against women.…”

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Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter

Lutzky

Lawson

2019

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This article presents the findings of a corpus linguistic analysis of the hashtags #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption, three lexical blends which have recently found widespread use across a variety of online media platforms. Focusing on the social media and microblogging site Twitter, we analyze a corpus of over 20,000 tweets containing these hashtags to examine how discourses of gender politics and gender relations are represented on the site. More specifically, our analysis suggests that users include these hashtags in tweets to index their individual evaluations of, and assumptions about, “proper” gendered behavior. Consequently, their metadiscursive references to the respective phenomena reflect their beliefs of what constitutes appropriate (verbal) behavior and the extent to which gender is appropriated as a variable dictating this behavior. As such, this article adds to our knowledge of the ways in which gendered social practices become sites of contestation and how contemporary gender politics play out in social media sites.

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#WhyITold: A Pilot Test of Twitter Messages Aimed at Promoting Bystander Intervention against Domestic Violence

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Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

Situational and Dispositional Factors in Rape Cognitions: The Roles of Social Media and the Dark Triad Traits

Gender Politics and Discourses of #mansplaining, #manspreading, and #manterruption on Twitter

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