Abstract
The #metoo campaign became a worldwide phenomenon, through the tweet was made against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein by the actress Alyssa Milano on October 15, 2017. In India the campaign took off on October 7, 2018, when the actress Tanushree Dutta made serious allegations against the actor Nana Patekar, narrating her experiences while she was working with him in a film in 2008. The impact of the awareness created by #metoo campaign was such that well known personalities including the Union minister M J Akbar had to step down when the sexual harassment charges were leveled against them.In the backdrop of all these incidents, the study analyses the role of India media in framing of #metoo movements in India. The research paper analyses Indian news media’s coverage of this social media movement. The study focuses on the analyses of 40 news articles in two major national dailies in India.
Highlights
The #metoo campaign became a worldwide phenomenon, through the tweet made against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein by the actress Alyssa Milano on October 15, 2017
The impact of the awareness created by the #metoo campaign was such that well-known personalities including, Union minister M J Akbar had to step down when the sexual harassment charges levelled against him
The study adds that with the second wave feminism (1960-1980), the issue of media coverage of sexual violence incidents in the US and UK has fragmented between detraction and support
Summary
The #metoo campaign became a worldwide phenomenon, through the tweet made against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein by the actress Alyssa Milano on October 15, 2017. The disparity in media coverage of crimes committed against women in India before and after December 2012 for Media Studies' investigation of the prominent television news channels' coverage of the violent Delhi gang rape and murder case in December 2012, compared the media coverage in the week following the gang-rape incident in December 2012, to a week in March 2012 when only 46 minutes were devoted to all rape cases and 17 minutes to all molestation cases (Sachdev, 2013). News channels such as NDTV 24x7 spent 1,998 minutes, AajTakabout 1,104 minutes, and Zee News 1,275 minutes to the story. GÉNEROS –Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 9(1) 82
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