{"id":1621,"date":"2014-05-16T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:31","slug":"social-media-and-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/05\/16\/social-media-and-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week a report published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demos.co.uk\/publications\/misogyny\">Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 You can read the full text on the website.<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting key findings include:\u00a0of over 100,000 Tweets mentioning \u2018rape\u2019 between 26th December 2013 and 9th February 2014, more than 1 in 10 appeared to be threatening in nature.\u00a0 A high proportion of Tweets containing misogynistic language were judged to be doing so in a \u2018casual\u2019 or metaphorical way.\u00a0 The report also suggests that women are increasingly using derogatory language against themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter.\u00a0 You can read the full text on the website. Some interesting key findings include:\u00a0of over 100,000 Tweets mentioning \u2018rape\u2019 between 26th December 2013 and 9th February 2014, more than 1 in 10 appeared to be threatening in nature.\u00a0 A high proportion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,12,15],"tags":[241,71,82,243,99],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-education","category-media-and-communication","category-sociology","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-social-media","tag-sociology","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}