Old crimes reported in new bottles: the disclosure of child sexual abuse on Twitter through the case #MeTooInceste

dc.contributor.authorAguerri, J. C., Molnar, L., & Miró-Llinares, F.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-09T18:34:40Z
dc.date.available2023-02-09T18:34:40Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractMovements such as #MeToo have shown how an online trend can become the vehicle for collectively sharing personal experiences of sexual victimisation that often remains unreported to the criminal justice system. These social media trends offer new opportunities to social scientists who investigate complex phenomena that, despite existing since time immemorial, are still taboo and difficult to access. They also bring technical difficulties, as the challenge to identify reports of victimisation, and new questions about the characteristic of the events, the role that victimisation testimonies play and the capacity to detect them by analysing their characteristics. To address these issues, we collected 91,501 tweets under the hashtag #MeTooInceste, posted from the 20 to 27 January 2021. A model was fitted using Latent Dirichlet Allocation that detected 1688 tweets disclosing experiences of child sexual abuse, with an accuracy of 91.3% [± 3%] and a recall of 93.1% [± 5%]. We performed Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations on the tweets identified as disclosures of victimisation and found that long tweets posted by users with small accounts, without URL or picture, were more likely to be related to disclosure of child sexual abuse. We discuss the possibilities of these trends and techniques offer for research and practice.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAguerri, J. C., Molnar, L., & Miró-Llinares, F. (2023). Old crimes reported in new bottles: The disclosure of child sexual abuse on Twitter through the case# MeTooInceste. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 13(1), 1-14.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-023-01029-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5727
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSocial Network Analysis and Miningen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectsexual assaulten_US
dc.subjectdisclosureen_US
dc.subjectreportingen_US
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.titleOld crimes reported in new bottles: the disclosure of child sexual abuse on Twitter through the case #MeTooIncesteen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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