Sexual assault or ‘just a bad date’? #MeToo and conceptualisations of sexual violence in the Twitter discussion of the allegations against Aziz Ansari
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DOI: 10.1080/03906701.2025.2450439
Abstract: ABSTRACT The article explores the tensions between ‘common-sense’ and ‘continuum’ conceptualisations of sexual violence in public discourse during the height of the #MeToo social media movement in 2017. A particularly salient case study for analysis… read more here.
Keywords: sexual violence; violence; conceptualisations sexual; aziz ansari ... See more keywords
“Girl power gone wrong”: #MeToo, Aziz Ansari, and media reporting of (grey area) sexual violence
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DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1606843
Abstract: ABSTRACT Sexual violence has predominantly been discursively constructed as bounded and binary, leaving little room for ambiguous or uncertain experiences. The #MeToo movement, however, saw some highly contested cases enter into mainstream news coverage that… read more here.
Keywords: violence; media reporting; news; aziz ansari ... See more keywords