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The #MeToo Movement Findings from The PEORIA Project
Visit our research website for more info: http://gspm.gwu.edu/peoria-project
Michael D. Cohen, Ph.D.Political Management Program Director and
PEORIA Project Chief Data Scientist
About the Research
• Measuring the Public Echoes of Rhetoric In America; first release was in May 2015, the second phase was the 2016 election. We are now monitoring public policy debates and social movements ahead of the mid-term elections.
• Data: We focus on political conversation on Twitter because: (1) it is an open platform, (2) the President is active, (3) agenda setting: mainstream media and opinion leaders echo content on other platforms.
• Website: http://gspm.gwu.edu/peoria-project
• Weekly Publication: The ECHO at U.S. News & World Reporthttps://www.usnews.com/topics/author/michael-d-cohen
• Journal Article: Empowering the Party Crasherhttps://gspm.gwu.edu/empowering-party-crasher
• Follow @PEORIAProject, @MichaelCohen, @MBCornfield
What is the PEORIA Project?
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How Did We Get the Data?
Crimson HexagonThe platform allows us to look backpast the API restraints to see the history of a set of key words or Twitter accounts. It only has OPEN content.
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Dominant Hashtags
#MeToo remains the dominant hashtag … for now
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#MeToo: Word Cloud
The movement got a Hollywood boost in January 2018
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#MeToo: Volume of Tweets
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Average 4,251 Average 9,698
#MeToo: Volume by Gender
Discussion skews female, particularly when revelations surface
Note: 56% of all tweets had “identifiable gender.” This is the split among that subset.
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Comparison: #BLM
Two social media peaks and no legislative wins
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Movement Growth and Goals
• Energy: The #MeToo movement has sustained its energy beyond the 2017 Harvey Weinstein revelations and created an opportunity to harness online postings into real change. We are able to track a small part of this on Twitter.
• Environment: While the #MeToo movement is mainly directed at sexual harassment and related workplace misbehavior it has also become an echo for private behavior such as spousal abuse.
• Evolution: For the #MeToo social movement to be enduring it needs to grow into a political movement that pursues public policy change and through organizing like-minded groups and electing candidates.
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Contact Information
Michael B. Cornfield, Ph.D. Global Center for Political Engagement Research [email protected] | 202.994.9598 | @MBCornfield
Michael D. Cohen, Ph.D.Political Management Program [email protected] | 202.579.9094 | @MichaelCohen
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.Graduate School of Political Management [email protected] | 202.994.4545 | @LaraMBrown
The PEORIA ProjectGraduate School of Political Managementhttp://gspm.gwu.edu/peoria-project | @PEORIAProject
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