The #MeToo Movement in the United States: Text Analysis of Early Twitter Conversations.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The #MeToo movement sparked an international debate on the sexual harassment, abuse, and assault and has taken many directions since its inception in October of 2017. Much of the early conversation took place on public social media sites such as Twitter, where the hashtag movement began. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study is to document, characterize, and quantify early public discourse and conversation of the #MeToo movement from Twitter data in the United States. We focus on posts with public first-person revelations of sexual assault/abuse and early life experiences of such events. METHODS:We purchased full tweets and associated metadata from the Twitter Premium application programming interface between October 14 and 21, 2017 (ie, the first week of the movement). We examined th

SUBMITTER: Modrek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751092 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature