Applying Qualitative Methods to Investigate Social Actions for Justice Using Social Media
Illustrations From Facebook
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2414130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zaida Orth (0000-0002-2895-0417, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author), Michelle Andipatin (0000-0003-1805-9361, University of the Western Cape), Ferdinand C Mukumbang (0000-0003-1441-2172, University of the Western Cape), Brian Van Wyk (0000-0003-1032-1847, University of the Western Cape) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Media + Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-3051 • E-ISSN: 2056-3051 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2056305120919926 |
| OpenAlex | W3037113004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Social media is becoming a valuable resource for hosting activism as illustrated in the rise of the hashtag movements, such as #MeToo and #Endrapeculture, used to speak out against rape culture. In this article, we discuss the use of social media as the source and object of research, using the case of the 2016 South African #nakedprotest. We used naturalistic observation on Facebook comment threads and followed these up with online Facebook focus groups. Qualitative content analysis and thematic decomposition analysis were used, respectively, to explore online discourses of rape culture. We found that the use of social media as a medium for data collection is valuable for exploring trending social issues such as the rape culture #nakedprotest. We uncovered that social media offers researchers the opportunity to collect, analyze, and triangulate rich qualitative data for the exploration of social phenomena. This study illustrates the usefulness of social media as a pedagogical instrument
Content analysis · Data collection · Focus group · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative analysis · Qualitative property · Qualitative research · Social justice · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Social Media and Politics
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Stereotypical Victims
Critical Review of Sustainable Peace, Mediative Dialogue and Social Media
Trustworthiness Over Time on Twitter
Socially Mediated Publicness
Content Analysis
The qualitative content analysis process
Sex(t)ing Revolution, Femen-izing the Public Square
Rape Culture and the Feminist Politics of Social Media
It’s On Us.” The Role of Social Media and Rape Culture in Individual Willingness to Mobilize Against Sexual Assault
Tracing and archiving ‘constructed’ data on Facebook pages and groups
Rape culture and social media
Safetytipsforladies
Feminist intersectionality and the matrix of domination in South Africa
Tweeting rape culture
Perception of rape culture on a college campus
Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape
Using thematic analysis in psychology
EndRapeCulture Campaign in South Africa
Qualitative and Mixed Methods Social Media Research
Online Facebook Focus Group Research of Hard-to-Reach Participants
Using internet data sources to achieve qualitative interviewing purposes
Negotiating Desire and Sexual Subjectivity
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |