Drunk Girl: A brief thematic analysis of Twitter posts about alcohol use and #MeToo

Qualitative Research Reports in Communication Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1080/17459435.2021.2016919

Calandra Lindstadt, Brittany P. Boyer, E. Ciszek, A. Chung, Gary B. Wilcox

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This research brief presents analyses aimed at characterizing the content of a corpus of original and retweeted Twitter posts related to the role of alcohol intoxication in sexual assault within the context of the #MeToo movement. A text-mining approach was used to collect 25,014 tweets and retweets containing #MeToo and keywords involving alcohol intoxication posted during the year after #MeToo went viral (October 15, 2017 to October 15, 2018). A combination of algorithm-driven cluster analysis and manual qualitative analysis was used to discover the most prominent themes. Analyses revealed that the content of tweets related to alcohol use and #MeToo were overwhelmingly centered around U.S.politics. Analysis of a subsample of 5,566 original (i.e., non-retweeted) tweets revealed fewer politically-focused topics and a noteworthy theme expressing concern for men in the #MeToo era. Findings are discussed in relation to political discourse on social media, the use of #MeToo to express political ideologies, and implications for supporting sexual assault survivors.

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醉酒女孩:对Twitter上有关饮酒和#MeToo的帖子进行简短的主题分析

本研究简要介绍了旨在描述与#MeToo运动背景下酒精中毒在性侵犯中的作用有关的原创和转发推特帖子语料内容的分析。使用文本挖掘方法收集了#MeToo走红一年后(2017年10月15日至2018年10月15日)发布的25014条包含#MeToo和涉及酒精中毒的关键词的推文和转发。算法驱动的聚类分析和人工定性分析的结合被用来发现最突出的主题。分析显示，与饮酒和#MeToo相关的推文内容绝大多数以美国政治为中心。对5566条原创(即未转发)推文的子样本进行分析后发现，与政治相关的话题较少，而表达对#MeToo时代男性关注的主题值得关注。研究结果讨论了社交媒体上的政治话语，使用#MeToo来表达政治意识形态，以及对支持性侵犯幸存者的影响。

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