Rape, storytelling and social media: how Twitter interrupted the news media’s ability to construct collective memory
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2-2018
Abstract
This study, using the Mary Kay LeTourneau interview on ABC’s 20/20 television program, investigates how social media coupled with citizens’ voices interact with mainstream media in the telling of a story and the construction of collective memory. Grounded in discourse analysis, this research examines the 20/20 story and accompanying Twitter conversations to understand how dominant and feminist ideologies about gender, rape, sexual violence, sexuality, and love are presented and (re)articulated in these texts. In doing so, this study considers how a newly opened public sphere via social media may have the capabilities to influence our collective memories and remove some of this long-held power away from traditional mainstream media.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Feminist Media Studies
First Page
979
Last Page
995
Recommended Citation
Harp, D., Grimm, J., & Loke, J. (2018). Rape, storytelling and social media: how Twitter interrupted the news media’s ability to construct collective memory. Feminist Media Studies, 18 (6), 979-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1373688