Li Manyu, Turki Nadia, Izaguirre Cassandra R, DeMahy Chloe, Thibodeaux Brooklyn Labery, Gage Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana.
J Community Psychol. 2021 Apr;49(3):854-868. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22324. Epub 2020 Feb 7.
In recent years, social media has been widely used as a tool for feminist social movements, addressing social problems such as sexual assault traumatization. This research aims at understanding how social media users utilized Twitter to describe traumatic sexual assault experiences and reasons victims chose not to disclose their experiences (Study 1), and how users became a part of the digital activism (i.e., social media movement against sexual assault) to increase social actions (Study 2). Tweets using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport and #MeToo were extracted. Thematic analyses were used to analyze tweets across the two studies. Results from Study 1 revealed that social media victims who self-disclosed their victimization stories often reported having serious psychological impacts, a sense of helplessness, and issues with the police. Study 2 further uncovered that social media users engaged in hashtag activism through discussing views on relevant political and social issues, sharing resources to help sexual assault victims, and promoting social actions (e.g., protests, voting).
近年来，社交媒体已被广泛用作女权主义社会运动的工具，以解决诸如性侵犯创伤等社会问题。本研究旨在了解社交媒体用户如何利用推特来描述创伤性性侵犯经历以及受害者选择不披露其经历的原因（研究1），以及用户如何成为数字行动主义（即反对性侵犯的社交媒体运动）的一部分以增加社会行动（研究2）。提取了使用#WhyIDidntReport和#MeToo标签的推文。采用主题分析法对两项研究中的推文进行分析。研究1的结果显示，在社交媒体上自我披露受害故事的受害者经常报告有严重的心理影响、无助感以及与警方有关的问题。研究2进一步发现，社交媒体用户通过讨论相关政治和社会问题的观点、分享帮助性侵犯受害者的资源以及推动社会行动（如抗议、投票）来参与标签行动主义。
