#MeToo and Us politics: analysing the Twitter conversation

Bernardini, Vittoria

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dc.contributor.author	Bernardini, Vittoria	de
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-01T10:16:18Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-01T10:16:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021	de
dc.identifier.issn	1857-9760	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/75083
dc.description.abstract	The #MeToo movement has had a profound cultural impact on US society, and notably on US party politics. While many studies have addressed the #MeToo-related controversy arising from the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to Supreme Court Justice in 2018, the relationship between #MeToo and US politics before this event has remained understudied. This article, therefore, addresses this gap by looking at the role of politics at the beginning of the #MeToo movement. Focusing on the first six months of online activity on Twitter (October 2017 - April 2018), over 2 million tweets with the #MeToo hashtag are analyzed to identify the main activity patterns across the dataset and to gain insight on user behavior and participation in the conversation. Results point to the weaponization of #MeToo in the political context from its inception. It is suggested that #MeToo reflects the polarized political climate in the US and that it can be conceptualized as part of the wider "culture wars" (Hunter 1991) that characterize the public debate.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.other	#MeToo; US Politics; Political Polarization; Donald Trump	de
dc.title	#MeToo and Us politics: analysing the Twitter conversation	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Journal of Liberty and International Affairs
dc.source.volume	7	de
dc.publisher.country	MISC	de
dc.source.issue	3	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	soziale Bewegung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social movement	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Protestbewegung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	protest movement	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Polarisierung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	polarization	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Twitter	de
dc.subject.thesoz	twitter	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Benutzer	de
dc.subject.thesoz	user	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politischer Einfluss	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political influence	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Parteipolitik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	party politics	en
dc.subject.thesoz	USA	de
dc.subject.thesoz	United States of America	en
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0	en
internal.status	formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen	de
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	33-49	de
internal.identifier.classoz	10504
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dc.rights.sherpa	Grüner Verlag	de
dc.rights.sherpa	Green Publisher	en
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.47305/JLIA2137033b	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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