New York, Oct 26 (IANS) Indians are posting “millions” of misogynistic tweets on Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), according to an alarming study on gender-based violence in the country. The study defines online misogyny as consisting of six overlapping forms: gender abuse, sexual objectification, threatening to physically or sexually harm women, announcing women’s inferiority, justifying violence against women, and rejecting feminist efforts.
Researchers from UNICEF and the University of California, San Diego, USA, have studied the study of the University of California, San Diego. A study conducted by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security has shown that, just like in the offline world, gender inequalities play out on social media platforms.
The study, published in the journal PLOS One, notes that online misogyny about X is prevalent in India.
It showed a significant increase in absolute volume, as well as the proportion of misogynistic tweets after the onset of Covid-19, compared to pre-pandemic trends.
“Approximately 2% of all tweets between 2018 and 2021 included some form of misogynistic content,” the researchers said.
While this may seem like a small number, “it translates to millions of misogynistic tweets every day, given that an average of around 20 billion tweets are posted daily. “
“Our study draws attention to online misogyny as a topic of gender studies in India, a country where its use is on the rise and the offline bureaucracy of gender-based violence is widespread,” they said in the newspaper.
The team conducted qualitative research of a small subset of tweets posted in India (40,672 tweets).
Supervised device learning models were then used to predict the state of misogyny in a corpus of 30 million tweets posted from India between 2018 and 2021.
Next, interrupted time-series research tested adjustments in the prevalence of misogyny online, before and Covid-19.
“The findings highlight the accumulation of gender inequality on Twitter since the pandemic. Aggressive and hate-filled tweets directed at women attempt to violate classic gender norms, i. e. , those similar to the idealized sexual habit and portrayal of women as sexual beings,” the researchers said. .
The researchers called for “a pressing need for long-term studies and a progression of interventions to make virtual spaces equitable and welcoming to women. “
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