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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"#metoo movement"”.
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The Reporting of Rape in UK Online News: Examining the Potential Impact of the #MeToo Movement on News Framing
… This dissertation aims to examine whether the #MeToo movement has catalysed a shift in the way rape is framed in online news by addressing the following research question: Has the #MeToo movement catalysed a shift in how UK online news frame stories of rape? To explore this, a thematic analysis …
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When the News is the News: A Textual Analysis of NBC and CBS networks' Response to Sexual Harassment Allegations in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement
As the #MeToo movement swept the nation from Hollywood to Washington, within less than a week's time in November of 2017, longstanding news anchors, Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose were fired from their respective news networks because of sexual harassment allegations. As a result, each network had to …
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#MeToo media and Hollywood: challenging sexual violence in film and television and the limits of media industries
… film and television texts that address the #MeToo movement—both implicitly and explicitly—in their narratives. Taken together, these texts make up a distinct cycle of film and television I term "#MeToo Media." This dissertation seeks to uncover how Hollywood comes to terms with the #MeToo …
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Speak in Women’s Way: Online Feminist Movements and Social Media Impact of #MeToo China 2018
Since 2017, an online feminist movement sparking debates against sexual harassment has been launched on Twitter using the hashtag “MeToo”, soon going viral from online platforms to the offline world. Starting in the United States, the #MeToo movement has influenced more than 85 countries. Among …
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Moving with Stories of "Me too.": Towards a Theory and Praxis of Intersectional Entanglements
… of mediated phenomena. Using the example of the #MeToo Movement, I bring together intersectional feminism, posthumanism, and new materialism to delineate "intersectional entanglements" in order to develop the praxes of virtual dwelling, vibrant ethos, and vital structuring and to analyze the ways …
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Hartazgo: Understanding how #YoTeCreo emerged in Venezuela
… sparked, using as a case study #YoTeCreo movement in Venezuela. Using the FemMesh to connect feminists knowledges, nodes and entanglements together with a transnationalized intersectionality, I discuss how this digital activism occurred locally. As this topic is novel and this thesis is …
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#METOO: NETWORKED CELEBRITY ADVOCACY AS CAPITAL PERFORMANCE
… advocacy scholars have studied how social movements utilize celebrity appeal to attract media and public attention for decades. Some researchers have found that celebrity advocacy failed to achieve exceptional performance in the legacy media age. Moreover, only a very few top-class …
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A Practice-as-Research Project utilizing Butler’s (1990) Feminist/ Post-structuralist theory of Gender Performativity, as well as Connells (2001) system of Hegemony, Complicity, and Subordination to Interrogate the Formation of Toxic Masculinities through Practice-as-Research and Live Art Methodologies
… become challenged by developments such as the MeToo movement. There are now stable grounds to argue that there is such thing as a toxic masculinity, an understanding that has been brought about through a series of questions that ask what grounds masculinity is constructing its position of …
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Monica and Stormy -- An Analysis of Media Portrayals of the Leading Women in the Trump and Clinton Sex Scandals
… changes in sexual norms that culminated in the “#MeToo” movement, and the explosion of the internet and social media. Comparing how the media behaved during the two scandals is an instructive tale for journalists in reporting on future political sex scandals.
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“Hideous things have happened here”: Rape myths, rape culture, and healing in adolescent literature
… a hand in connecting readers with contemporary movements that speak out against sexual violence and rape, such as the #MeToo movement. This allows adolescents a way to truly understand the impact of rape culture and find ways they can bring an awareness to and ultimately work against rape …
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Perspectives of a Diasporan: A Heuristic, Arts-Based Inquiry of the Importance of Therapy in Armenia
… of Armenian women in the wake of the Armenian “#metoo” movement. The aim of this research was to inquire the researcher's historical and cultural perspectives on patriarchal cultural norms, which has marginalized women and perpetuated abuse in their society. This recognizes the concept of …
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Intimacy Direction: A New Role in Contemporary Theatre Making
… yet distinct role. In the wake of the #metoo movement, which went viral in 2017, the demand for intimacy direction has grown exponentially, due primarily to the role's ability to alter dangerous and coercive power structures. This position utilizes a three-pronged approach of advocacy, …
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Vulnerability and the feminist politics of sexual violence
… This is in contrast to activist antiviolence movements of the 1970s that articulated a ‘structural’ account of vulnerability, where women’s disproportionate vulnerability to sexual violence was a point of departure. The thesis will argue that an intersectional feminist politics of sexual …
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Chasing Peace: A Memoir
… in part to the 2017 viral reckoning of the #MeToo movement.
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Shaping Shakespeare: How American Shakespeare Festivals Adapt Shakespeare’s Texts in the Twenty-First Century
… the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the MeToo movement, led to new adaptations and stagings of lesser-staged texts, strategies that expand access, community discussion, and challenge traditional festival models. This dissertation argues that adapted performance in American Shakespeare …
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The Material Language of Protest: Textile Art and Clothing Craftivism, Britain 1970-2018
… Betsy Greer in 2003 to represent a craft-based movement that sought to reconceptualise handcraft as an alternative form of protest against social injustice and inequalities (Sinclair, 2014). Taking both a historical and a contemporary perspective, this research analyses the design, production …