TY - JOUR
T1 - The hijacked hashtag
T2 - The constitutive features of abortion stigma in the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter campaign
AU - Kosenko, Kami
AU - Winderman, Emily
AU - Pugh, Abigail
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Although originally intended to destigmatize abortion, the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter campaign was hijacked by anti-abortionists who linked the hashtag to hundreds of stigmatizing, anti-abortion messages. Using a Twitter Search API, we collected these messages (N = 1,990 tweets) to identify the discursive features of abortion stigma, which we defined as messages that other and label something related to abortion as physically, behaviorally, socially, and/or morally deficient. These messages bore six features: religious references, disgust cues, infamous allusions, imputations, mentions of medical maleficence, and stigma affirmations. The discussion section details the implications of these findings.
AB - Although originally intended to destigmatize abortion, the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter campaign was hijacked by anti-abortionists who linked the hashtag to hundreds of stigmatizing, anti-abortion messages. Using a Twitter Search API, we collected these messages (N = 1,990 tweets) to identify the discursive features of abortion stigma, which we defined as messages that other and label something related to abortion as physically, behaviorally, socially, and/or morally deficient. These messages bore six features: religious references, disgust cues, infamous allusions, imputations, mentions of medical maleficence, and stigma affirmations. The discussion section details the implications of these findings.
KW - Abortion
KW - Stigma
KW - Women's health
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062941671
SN - 1932-8036
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - International Journal of Communication
JF - International Journal of Communication
ER -