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Feminism and Social Media Getting to the roots of #MeToo Movement– Through the lenses of Social Media and the 4th Wave of Feminism

  • In recent years, social media platforms are revolutionizing in a way that users are able to communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in society. Sexual abuse, as for example, is one such topic that recently took all over social media by simply using the hashtag #MeToo. The aim of it was to empower and motivate women to share posts and stories related to previous sexual abuses that they had experienced. Individuals with different backgrounds and ethnicities began sharing their unfortunate personal experiences with the wide public. Hence, this thesis analyzes how the #MeToo movement escalated from an online trending hashtag to a social movement with the assistance of social media and media coverage. Considering the purpose of the #MeToo movement, I will mostly focus on the sexual harassment and cyber-violence towards women. Both factors, can profoundly impact women’s psychological, social, and spiritual health. Hence this has a further impact on women’s participation in society. To testify this, I will further analyze the EU drafts and policies that have been undertaken in order to minimize, thus eliminate any sexual violence towards women. Of course, sexual and cyber violence can refer to a range of sexual violations as for instance, the child sexual abuse, but in this paper, the focus will mainly be on the #MeToo movement which does not claim to be a movement for all forms of sexual or gender violence. Hence, the children are not the main audience of the movement and I will therefore not focus on them in this dissertation. The data collected in this research will further demonstrate through my dissertation the impact that social media has on the 4th wave of feminism, by getting into the roots of the #MeToo movement. Furthermore, with this dissertation, I would like to examine the connection between social media and feminism on its own, and lastly going beyond the #MeToo movement.

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Author:Jovana Frroku
Referee:Sigrid Betzelt
Advisor:Hanna Völkle
Document Type:Master's Thesis
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2020/12/29
Publishing Institution:Hochschulbibliothek HWR Berlin
Granting Institution:Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Date of final exam:2020/11/02
Release Date:2021/09/14
Page Number:27
Institutes:FB I - Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Poltical Economy of European Integration M.A.
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtsschutz