Alternative Framing of Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women on Weibo

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_22How to use a DOI?

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sexual violence; domestic violence; framing theory; social media; content analysis

Abstract

Weibo is a very popular social media platform in China. Many people use Weibo to report social events and make their voices heard. The current study presents empirical evidence of how social media users in China frame sexual and domestic violence. Through content analysis over nearly 100 trending posts that are related to sexual violence or domestic violence, I found that those incidents were less framed directly as sexual or domestic violence case. While the explanation behind such alternative framing is unknown in the current study, future studies should investigate the motivations based on the preliminary results and discussion of this study. Other potential research directions include looking at the consequences of the alternative framing for sexual and domestic violence in the context of China.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qingqing Zhang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - Alternative Framing of Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women on Weibo
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 163
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_22
ID  - Zhang2023
ER  -