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Soumi answered on
Nov 02 2020
Running Head: #METOO MOVEMENT 1
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#METOO MOVEMENT
1. What is the character and demographic make-up of the community of interest engaged in the discourse under analysis?
The #MeToo movement started years ago when Tarana Burke came forward to fight for dark skinned girl victims of sexually assaults, by making the victims realize that they are not alone and there are other who have faced such adversities in life.
Tarana Burke, #MeToo Movement
However, in 2017, the #MeToo campaign started with big names such as Taylor Swift, Ashley Judd and Susan Fowler posed on the cover of Time Magazine em
acing the movement by urging women to come forward who have been sexually assaulted at any given time by using the # MeToo to become a part of the movement.
Cover Page of Time Magazine 2017, Initiation of #MeToo
The initiators of the movement were all women and belonged to the elite class of the society, most of them being role model for other. However, the movement gradually became widespread and men joined in as supports and victims. Sexual assaults are common to both men and women and require change in the attitude than safeguarding of all (Brunes & Heir, 2018).
Men in #MeToo Movement
2. What set of sites or platforms or forums locate the discourse?
The #MeToo movement gradually used all the leading social networking platforms and news websites for gaining the popularity and global support for its. However, it was Twitter. In which the movement became viral, accounting 200,000 tweets that uses the name #MeToo and 500,000 tweets altogether.
Response to #MeToo Movement on Twitte
In Facebook, also the #MeToo movement gained momentum and became trending worldwide. It was found that #MeToo movement associated more than a quarter of the total global users of Facebook as their friends shared their ho
ific tales. When social issues become widespread, the blame must be given to the social norms (Orchowski et al., 2018).
Global Response to #MeToo Movement
3. What
oader discourses are invoked?
The #MeToo movement not only identified and
ought in attention the sexual assaults ca
ied out on women, men and children, they also helped in developing global equality of gender dignity at workplace, social media and in families.
#MeToo Movement Becoming Widespread
The #MeToo movement started a movement that not only sympathizes with the victims but also
ings them together to offer resistance against big names, demanding a better behavior from every person, treating everyone with dignity. Sexually assaulting someone is a disregard for individual dignity as well as contempt for law (Moore, & Baker, 2018).
#Me Too Movement
inging in Change in Perception
4. What language, vernacular, jargon, style and/or tone characterize the discourse?
In October 2017, the #MeToo movement became viral on internet as women from the elite society came forward to speak about a tabooed topic such as sexual harassment. On social media English was the language used for the #MeToo movement as it was the international language, reducing the communication gap between people in different parts of the globe sharing their similar experience.
#MeToo Experiences Shared on Social Media
The way people na
ated their stories or rather experience was aggressive, distu
ing and had an air of naked reality lying underneath the cu
ent of hypocrisy. The majority of the women shared their stories, the motives of the abusers and the way the entire event unfolded, sparking rage worldwide.
Accounts of #MeToo Experience on Social Media
5. What terms, concepts, identities, truths, messages are contested?
Before the #MeToo movement became popular, the public attention was drawn to the movement as through the mention of names of male cele
ities in the entertainment industry. As one gender is accused by another, there generates certain gender biased incidents (Gray, 2018).
Popular Male Actors Accused through #MeToo Movement
As most of the victims were female and accusers were established male cele
ities, the authenticities of the claims were doubted and were considered as publicity stunts to get media...