Narrative bonding & the exploitation of the girl child in facebook memories of AnnBen #Safespace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23312516 |
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| Authors | Onyekachi Peter Onuoha (0000-0002-2145-8139, University of Calabar, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discover Global Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2731-9687 • E-ISSN: 2731-9687 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s44282-025-00319-w |
| OpenAlex | W7171496764 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This study focused on the self-representation of the adolescent female on the Facebook page of #Safespace. It explores how they construct their identity through the life-narrative bonding of themselves and memory. 62 narrative data points were generated from Ann Ben’s Facebook #Safespace and subjected to the concept of life-writing, examining it as a space for narrative bondingfor subjugated adolescents. The study further investigates how #Safespace on Facebook provides social media parenting through commenting and the co-creation of meaning using autobiographical inference. The study claims that #Safespace is a support system for rape victims and adolescents who suffer parental neglect and abusethat encourages adolescents and women to have confidence in themselves, irrespective of their physical appearances. The study adopts an integration ofmethods; namely, social media analytics and latent semantic analysis to analyse texts from the Facebook page #Safespace. It concludes that #Safespace provides a digital social media archive for Nigerian female Netizens who are abused and subjugated in varying forms in the Nigerian society. The study is expected to contribute meaningfully to the scholarship of digital humanities and social media studies by highlighting how digital spaces on Facebook could function, among others, as channels for parenting and remediation of girl-child abuses in patriarchal societies.
Girl · Narrative · Social media · The Internet · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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