Twitter, Incivility and “Everyday” Gendered Othering: An Analysis of Tweets Sent to UK Members of Parliament
Twitter, Incivility and “Everyday” Gendered Othering: An Analysis of Tweets Sent to UK Members of Parliament
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推特、不礼貌和“日常”性别差异：对发送给英国议会议员的推文的分析
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Emily Harmer
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作者：
Rosalynd Southern;Emily Harmer
最近，广泛报道的研究评估了发送给英国女议员的网上信息，并得出结论，她们遭受了严重的虐待。然而，这些研究往往集中在最引人注目的议员和最严重的虐待事件上，或者没有将男性议员纳入他们的研究以进行比较。这项研究旨在评估更微妙的不文明行为和其他形式，以及不太出名的国会议员在网上的经历。它采用混合方法分析了14天内发送给议员的117,802条推文，以寻找不文明行为的证据。首先，提出了Twitter上接收不文明行为相关因素的评估模型，并进一步对性别推文进行了深入的专题分析。研究结果表明，在接受某些类型的不礼貌行为方面，女性和男性议员之间几乎没有区别。然而，与男性议员相比，女性议员更容易收到不文明的推文，对她们身份的刻板印象，以及质疑她们作为政治家地位的推文。定性地说，就性别其他而言，我们发现了几个包含厌女虐待的推文实例，推文妖魔化和物化女性议员，以及推文女性化男性议员。
Recently, widely reported studies assessed messages sent to UK female MPs online and concluded that they suffer high levels of abuse. However, these studies tended to focus on the most high-profile MPs and the worst instances of abuse or did not include male MPs in their study for comparison. This study aims to assess more subtle forms of incivility and othering and the experiences of less prominent MPs online. It takes a mixed-methods approach to analyzing 117,802 tweets sent to MPs over a 14-day period for evidence of incivility. Firstly, models assessing the factors associated with receiving incivility on Twitter are presented, and furthermore, an in-depth thematic analysis of gendered tweets is conducted. The findings suggest that for the receipt of certain types of incivility, there is little difference between female and male MPs. However, female MPs were more likely to receive generally uncivil tweets, tweets with stereotypes about their identity, and tweets questioning their position as politicians than male MPs. Qualitatively, in terms of gendered othering, we found several instances of tweets containing misogynistic abuse, tweets demonizing, and objectifying female MPs, as well as tweets feminizing male MPs.