The Influence of the Weibo Platform Coverage of Male Violence on Feminism in China in the Past Six Years

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_105How to use a DOI?

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Feminism; Media and feminism; Male violence on mass media; Male violence and feminism; Chinese feminism

Abstract

Due to the rapid development of the new media industry in recent years, people can conveniently receive any news from the internet. In China, the Weibo platform has become increasingly popular in people’s daily life. Weibo is a social media where people can post photos and articles, and many young people like to view news on Weibo’s hotspots and interact with other netizens. Meanwhile, the information on male violence in the past six years spread quickly on the mass media and has aroused many discussions and protests by feminists in China. Based on male violence in China, the author explores how male violence news on mass media influences feminism and netizens’ attitude toward feminism. This essay will focus on male violence reported on the Weibo hotspots in China in the past six years, including undifferentiated violence, targeted social violence, and acquaintances crime. From collecting male violence news and netizens’ attitudes on Weibo, people can find that most female users upload their angry and nervous emotions. A significant number of feminist Weibo accounts criticize male violence news and dissatisfaction with the punishment of male offenders. Feminist users appeal for support for feminism to improve women’s social status against malicious behaviour from men. Therefore, male violence incidents promote some feminist communication, but the news easily loses people’s attention after a few days and still lacks visibility and daily discussion.

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AU  - Yueyan Wang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - The Influence of the Weibo Platform Coverage of Male Violence on Feminism in China in the Past Six Years
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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