Sexual Assault On College Campuses: Social Media Analysis

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In order to better understand society’s attitudes towards sexual assault on college campuses, Ashley Giraldi and Elizabeth Monk-Turner have analyzed the comments on a local media post about an incident involving banners with sexually charged messages on them that happened at a large southeastern university during its move in day. They discuss how social media affects almost every aspect of our lives and the information we see, specifically concerning rape culture. There are two approaches to looking at the way social media perpetuates rape culture: through perpetuating hegemonic masculinity or the “boys will be boys” ideology and by normalizing rape culture in fraternities. The data gathered about the story came from comments on a Facebook

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