#MeToo movement in Estonia: a frame analysis

dc.contributor.advisorUba, Katrin, juhendaja
dc.contributor.authorKivisalu, Kaidi-Lisa
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Sotsiaalteaduste valdkondet
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Johan Skytte poliitikauuringute instituutet
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-13T07:33:41Z
dc.date.available2019-06-13T07:33:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractA new social movement was born in October 2017. In light of a high-profile sexual harassment scandal, women took to various social media channels to share their own stories of sexual harassment and violence using the #MeToo hashtag. The viral nature of the #MeToo movement saw its rapid spread to various other countries, Estonia included. The aim of this thesis was to analyse the response to the #MeToo movement in the Estonian media and political sphere. Two central questions were raised: how was the #MeToo movement framed in the Estonian mass-media and how was the movement framed in the Riigikogu. Informed by Snow and Benford’s work on framing and social movements, frame analysis was conducted on opinion pieces collected from three news sources and minutes to the parliamentary sittings. While the theoretical background may suggest that social movements can face serious negative framing due to protest or nuisance paradigm, the findings show that the movement was framed mostly positively in Estonian mass-media. Yet, regardless of the positive media coverage, no attempts at framing the issue was found in the Riigikogu, hence it can be said that there was no significant political reaction to the movement.en
dc.description.urihttps://www.ester.ee/record=b5239769*est
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/64242
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherTartu Ülikoolet
dc.rightsopenAccesset
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/
dc.subject.othermagistritöödet
dc.subject.otherohvridet
dc.subject.otherseksuaalne ahistamineet
dc.subject.otherseksuaalne vägivaldet
dc.subject.othermeediarepresentatsioonet
dc.subject.otherpoliitiline tegevuset
dc.subject.otherEestiet
dc.title#MeToo movement in Estonia: a frame analysisen
dc.typeThesisen

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