The #MeToo Movement in Twitter: Fighting Gender-Based Violence

Fatima Martinez Gutierrez; Carolina Pacheco; Marco Galicia

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68285-9_4

The #MeToo Movement in Twitter: Fighting Gender-Based Violence

Fatima Martinez Gutierrez, Carolina Pacheco, Marco Galicia

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This paper analyzes the behavior of the Me Too movement in Twitter between December 8, 2018—a little over than one year after actress Alyssa Milano triggered an outcry over sexual harassment, assault and discrimination—and May 8, 2019 through the #MeToo hashtag and numerous other related hashtags. The #MeToo hashtag, representative of a social media trend which seeks to empower female victims of gender-based violence has had a significant international impact. In fact, it viralized beyond the United States in countries where women have turned to social media to raise their voices for women’s rights. More than three million tweets were collected during the five-month period previously mentioned using a digital tool called DMI-TCAT to observe the evolution of the #MeToo movement and its consequences inside and outside of Twitter.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Conference on Information Technology & Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Information Technology and Systems
Publisher	Springer VS
Chapter	4
Pages	36-44
Number of pages	8
Volume	1330
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-68285-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-68284-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68285-9_4
State	Published - Jan 31 2021

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