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HASHTAG HARASSMENT

HASHTAG HARASSMENT. Twitter communities of awareness about sexual harassment in # egypt. #Harassment . Harassment in #Egypt is staggering … 83% women report getting harassed 2.4% actually report it to police Twitter breaking down the cultural taboo of talking about harassment.

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HASHTAG HARASSMENT

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  1. HASHTAG HARASSMENT Twitter communities of awareness about sexual harassment in #egypt

  2. #Harassment • Harassment in #Egypt is staggering … • 83% women report getting harassed • 2.4% actually report it to police • Twitter breaking down the cultural taboo of talking about harassment

  3. Research goals • What hashtags are used in discourse related to sexual harassment occurring in Egypt? • What do these hashtags reveal about the tweeter? • What is the purpose of these hashtags? • What patterns emerge among tweets that reveal a certain constructed discourse? • Do hashtags build a community of discourse? What are the metamessages of those communities?

  4. Ambient affiliation: A linguistic perspective on Twitter Michele Zappavigna/ @SMLinguist • “a typographic convention, the hashtag, has extended its meaning potential to operate as a linguistic marker referencing the target of evaluation in a tweet … This both renders the language searchable and is used to upscale the call to affiliate with values expressed in the tweet. We are currently witnessing a cultural shift in electronic discourse from online conversation to such ‘searchable talk’…‘hashtags’ function as linguistic markers enacting the following social relation: • ‘Search for me and affiliate with my value!’.

  5. methodology • Type of tweet • 1. Speech act • 2. Retweet • 3. Conversational • 4. News • 5. Admonishment (e.g. #endSH) • Positive or Negative • 1. Positive • 2. Negative • 3. Neutral • Type of tweeter • 1. Individual • 2. News organization • 3. NGO • 4. Other institutions • Location of tweeter • 1. In Egypt • 2. Outside of Egypt • Language • 1. English • 2. Arabic • 3. Diaglossia (Eng+Arab) • 4. Other • Sex of Tweeter • 1. Female • 2. Male • 3. N/A (e.g. organization) • Nationality of Tweeter • 1. Egyptian • 2. Other Arab country • 3. International, non-Arab Country

  6. Tweet mining • Tweetarchivist.com • Google Reader #endSH / 513 tweets in archive

  7. Results (Loading … ) • Tweet Archivist #endSH

  8. Conclusion (fewer than 140 characters) • How many data points is 2 much? 2 many coded categories? • Does #endSH automatically mean code 2 (admonishment). What abt multiple codes? • RTs take up 2 much space … include or not include. Think of Tannen’s constructed dialogue.. • TAKEAWAYS THUS FAR • For English hashtags, apr. 75% of tweets are in english, the rest Arabic or diglossia • Arabic Hashtags 99% arabic tweets • Diglossia use most prevalent with arabic tweet, enghashtag • So far most are negative • Reactions or live reporting of harassment may not be in a hashtag (!)

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