Analysis of online child sexual abuse news and comments: The role of media coverage in supporting incorrect stereotypes about victims and perpetrators

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dc.contributor.authorPopović, S.
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-27T18:20:03Z
dc.date.available2019-03-27T18:20:03Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe objectives of the research were to determine what attitudes towards child sexual abuse (CSA), victims and perpetrators are represented in the direct comments on child sexual abuse news, whether there is a difference in commenting with regard to the description of the victim, perpetrator and abuse in the news and whether there is an association between the specific attitudes. Quantitative and qualitative content analysis was used to analyze all CSA news published on the Jutarnji.hr news portal during 2015 (N = 78) and affiliated online Facebook comments (N = 531). The frequency of different attitudes and stereotypes within comments was recorded for each CSA news. The most prevalent were stereotypes about perpetrators, attitudes that shift responsibility from perpetrators to other persons and institutions, attitudes about CSA prevention and suppression and stereotypes about male victims. Use of the pejorative terms to describe a perpetrator, detailed descriptions of the CSA event, the disclosure of victims’ identities and consensual words to describe abuse have supported stereotypes about victims and perpetrators in the news comments. Such media coverage creates an unfavourable environment for detecting CSA and victims’ recovery.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPopović, S. (2016, May). Analysis of online child sexual abuse news and comments: The role of media coverage in supporting incorrect stereotypes about victims and perpetrators. In Sedma regionalna znanstvena konferencija. Vjerodostojnost medija: Novinarstvo i ljudska prava.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.fzsri.uniri.hr/files/IZDAVACKA_DJELATNOST/CMW%20conference%20proceedings.pdf#page=73
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4278
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPopovićen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual abuseen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectCroatiaen_US
dc.subjectmedia coverageen_US
dc.subjectonline news commentsen_US
dc.subjectcontent analysisen_US
dc.subjectattitudes towards CSAen_US
dc.subjectstereotypesen_US
dc.titleAnalysis of online child sexual abuse news and comments: The role of media coverage in supporting incorrect stereotypes about victims and perpetratorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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