Twitter Conversations: Gendered Issue Publics Among Women

IF 4.9 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Research Pub Date : 2026-08-03 DOI:10.1177/00936502261470086

Caley Hewitt, Ayla Oden, Nichole M. Bauer

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Abstract

We investigate how gender shapes women’s political discussion on Twitter using an issue publics framework. We test whether the conditions for gendered issue publics to form among women around feminine issues exist using data on political discussion via social media in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Our data includes political discussion among political candidates, elites, and non-elites, or regular people. Our results reveal several key findings. First, we find that men elites were more likely to discuss feminine issues, such as health care, compared to women elites, but we found no gender differences between regular Twitter users in our sample. Democratic women elites are more likely to discuss equity-based feminine issues, such as equal pay, than Republican women elites, but we find no partisan differences among non-elite women. We also find no gender or partisan differences at the elite and non-elite levels in the discussion of trait-based feminine issues, such as education. Finally, we show that in 2022, the Dobbs decision that rescinded the constitutional right to an abortion in the U.S. increased the salience of this issue among both women and men. Overall, our research suggests that the conditions for issue publics among women may not strongly exist as we find that non-elite men talk about feminine issues too.

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推特对话：女性中的性别问题

我们使用问题公共框架调查性别如何影响女性在Twitter上的政治讨论。我们使用2020年和2022年选举中通过社交媒体进行的政治讨论数据，来测试女性围绕女性问题形成性别问题公众的条件是否存在。我们的数据包括政治候选人、精英、非精英或普通人之间的政治讨论。我们的研究结果揭示了几个关键发现。首先，我们发现，与女性精英相比，男性精英更有可能讨论女性问题，比如医疗保健，但我们发现样本中普通Twitter用户之间没有性别差异。与共和党女性精英相比，民主党女性精英更有可能讨论以平等为基础的女性问题，比如同工同酬，但我们发现非精英女性之间没有党派差异。我们还发现，在讨论基于女性特质的问题（如教育）时，精英和非精英阶层没有性别或党派差异。最后，我们表明，在2022年，多布斯的决定废除了美国宪法赋予的堕胎权利，这一问题在女性和男性中都更加突出。总的来说，我们的研究表明，女性中问题公众的条件可能并不强烈存在，因为我们发现非精英男性也会谈论女性问题。

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Communication Research COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Empirical research in communication began in the 20th century, and there are more researchers pursuing answers to communication questions today than at any other time. The editorial goal of Communication Research is to offer a special opportunity for reflection and change in the new millennium. To qualify for publication, research should, first, be explicitly tied to some form of communication; second, be theoretically driven with results that inform theory; third, use the most rigorous empirical methods; and fourth, be directly linked to the most important problems and issues facing humankind. Critieria do not privilege any particular context; indeed, we believe that the key problems facing humankind occur in close relationships, groups, organiations, and cultures.