Political Polarisation on Gender Equality: The Case of the Swiss Women’s Strike on Twitter

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3ABKW7VUF2" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:BKW7VUF2 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/spp-2022-0003/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/spp-2022-0003/html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/spp-2022-0003" target="_blank" >10.1515/spp-2022-0003</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Political Polarisation on Gender Equality: The Case of the Swiss Women’s Strike on Twitter

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Social media platforms constitute an indispensable tool for social movements to mobilise public opinion to promote social change. To date, however, little is known about the extent to which activist and political claims formulated on social media echo what the general public thinks about gender equality. This is especially important given that social movements often use social media to develop their actions and to build long-standing support around particular claims. Our data collection is based on relevant actor groups and keywords surrounding the women’s strike that took place in Switzerland in June 2019. We investigate which actor groups were involved in gender equality discussions online, what were the prominent and polarising ideologies, and what were the main framings of the debate. Findings indicate that organizational committees and their followers were the most active, followed by political actors. We also observed a polarisation effect on social media between left and right-wing oriented actors, which is more pronounced than trends drawn from opinion surveys. We further find that social media discussions were organised along a continuum, which ranges between calling for attention and discussing concrete policy measures.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Political Polarisation on Gender Equality: The Case of the Swiss Women’s Strike on Twitter

Popis výsledku anglicky

Social media platforms constitute an indispensable tool for social movements to mobilise public opinion to promote social change. To date, however, little is known about the extent to which activist and political claims formulated on social media echo what the general public thinks about gender equality. This is especially important given that social movements often use social media to develop their actions and to build long-standing support around particular claims. Our data collection is based on relevant actor groups and keywords surrounding the women’s strike that took place in Switzerland in June 2019. We investigate which actor groups were involved in gender equality discussions online, what were the prominent and polarising ideologies, and what were the main framings of the debate. Findings indicate that organizational committees and their followers were the most active, followed by political actors. We also observed a polarisation effect on social media between left and right-wing oriented actors, which is more pronounced than trends drawn from opinion surveys. We further find that social media discussions were organised along a continuum, which ranges between calling for attention and discussing concrete policy measures.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Statistics, Politics, and Policy [online]

ISSN

2151-7509

e-ISSN

2151-7509

Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

255-278

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85137902659