Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
Department Didactics and School Organisation, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
Child Abuse Negl. 2022 Jan;123:105412. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105412. Epub 2021 Nov 22.
Incest remains one of the great taboos of contemporary society. Secrecy is also crucial in this type of sexual abuse against children, and many victims do not disclose their testimony. This situation changed, when in France in mid-January 2021, the #MeTooIncest movement emerged, and thousands of victims began to reveal the abuse they had suffered as children.
To analyze the discourse on Twitter regarding this hashtag to understand how incest abuse has been dealt with through social media debate. In so doing, we expected to identify the main elements that could explain how people have symbolically constructed and engaged with childhood sexual abuse in general and with incest abuse in particular.
In total, 20,556 tweets with the hashtag #MeTooIncest written in French were selected by streaming API from January 14 to February 15, 2021.
Their content was analyzed by lexical analysis using Iramuteq software (Reinert method).
Victims found a space for disclosure in this movement, where they felt believed, protected, and supported. This movement also embraced the victims of celebrity abusers, denouncing them and calling for their exclusion from public life. Likewise, at the societal level, this movement pushed for changes in public policies to protect children and emphasized the importance of breaking the public silence or secrecy about incest abuse.
This wave of testimonies represents a turning point as it has broken the law of silence and allowed the victims to exist in the media space without being questioned.
乱伦仍然是当代社会的一大禁忌。在这种针对儿童的性虐待中，保密也至关重要，许多受害者不会透露他们的证词。这种情况在 2021 年 1 月中旬法国的 #MeTooIncest 运动出现时发生了变化，成千上万的受害者开始揭露他们作为儿童时所遭受的虐待。
分析 Twitter 上关于该主题标签的讨论，以了解社交媒体辩论如何处理乱伦虐待问题。通过这样做，我们希望确定可以解释人们如何象征性地构建和参与一般儿童性虐待以及特别是乱伦虐待的主要因素。
总共选择了 20,556 条带有法语 #MeTooIncest 标签的推文，这些推文通过流媒体 API 从 2021 年 1 月 14 日至 2 月 15 日进行筛选。
使用 Iramuteq 软件（Reinert 方法）对其内容进行词汇分析。
受害者在这场运动中找到了披露的空间，在那里他们感到被信任、保护和支持。这场运动还接纳了名人施虐者的受害者，谴责他们并呼吁将他们排除在公共生活之外。同样，在社会层面上，这场运动推动了保护儿童的公共政策的改变，并强调了打破关于乱伦虐待的公众沉默或保密的重要性。
这一波证词代表了一个转折点，因为它打破了沉默的法律，让受害者在媒体空间中存在，而不会受到质疑。
