The politicising spark? Exploring the impact of #MeToo on the gender equality discourse in Australian print media

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Authors

EISELE Olga ESCALANTE-BLOCK Elena KLUKNAVSKÁ Alena BOOMGAARDEN Hajo G.

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Economics and Administration

Citation
Web https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10361146.2022.2045900
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2022.2045900
Keywords Automated content analysis; Australia; claims analysis; politicization; #MeToo; gender equality
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Description #MeToo has raised public awareness on issues of sexual harassment and misconduct at an unprecedented scale, nurturing hopes for sustainable change also in terms of gender equality. We use the concept of politicization to assess the potential for change which #MeToo might have induced in the broader print media discourse on gender equality issues. We analyse Australia as an arguably difficult case due to its conservative political and media system, thus offering political activism rather dire prospects of public resonance. We assess a total of two years of media coverage in the eight largest newspapers (October 2016 – September 2018), combining automated content analysis with manual claims analysis. Our results speak to the societal debate on gender equality as well as the potential of online social movements to change mainstream discourses and social realities.
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