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Lena Karlsson

Lena Karlsson

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Lena Karlsson

Testimonies in Limbo? Swedish News Media’s Framing of Digital Campaigns Against Sexual Violence

Author

  • Lena Karlsson

Editor

  • Ulrika Andersson
  • Monika Edgren
  • Lena Karlsson
  • Gabriella Nilsson

Summary, in English

In her chapter, Karlsson explores the mainstream media reception of three mainly digital Swedish campaigns against sexual violence between 2010-2013: ##prataomdet/talkaboutit, #mörkertalet/the darkfigures, and #fatta/getit. She traces the ways in which the campaign lines of contention and the campaign testimonies are re-framed for new audiences by mainstream media. By mainly investigating headlines and the politics of quotation, Karlsson shows how some testimonial narratives from the campaigns are presented as generalizable, nationally relevant concerns whereas others are presented as minority concerns and how these representational politics are classed and raced.

Department/s

  • Department of Gender Studies

Publishing year

2019-03-29

Language

English

Pages

223-245

Publication/Series

Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Media and Communications

Keywords

  • Digital activism
  • testimony
  • sexual violence
  • media framing
  • intersectionality

Status

Published

Project

  • Rape in Sweden 1990-2013. Historical and intersectional perspectives on rape in different genres

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-030-13852-3
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-13851-6