Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era

Andrea Baker is a senior lecturer in Journalism at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University in Australia. She is a member of Monash’s Gender and Media Lab, and has published widely in relation to net-radio, urban communication, gender, journalism safety, and reporting on sexual violence in urban music spaces. Usha Manchanda Rodrigues is a professor in Communication at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. As an experienced journalist and academic, her research crosses vocation-theory binary and national boundaries (India and Australia). She has published widely on the digital transformation of journalism practices, social media and political communication, and representation of cultural diversity in the media.

Part I: Issues with Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era 1. Reporting on Sexual Violence in the Pre- and Post-#MeToo 2.0 Era 2. Objectively Silencing Survivors During #MeToo 2.0: The Case of the US News Media and Donald Trump 3. #MeToo 2.0 as a Critical Incident: Voices, Silencing, and Reckoning in Denmark and Sweden 4. Marginalizing the Reporting of #MeToo 2.0 With Structural Bias in Japan 5. The Disquieting Demise of a "Watershed" Movement in India Part II: Intersectionality, Reporting the Missing Gap in the #MeToo Movement 6. The Significance of Intersectionality in the United States’ Media Coverage of the #MeToo 2.0 Movement 7. Intersectionality and Hashtag Journalism: Giving Women and Girls of Color a Voice in the United States’ Media Coverage of the R. Kelly Scandals 8. Exploring the Digital Divide as a Component of Intersectionality Through the #DalitLivesMatter Movement Part III: Reporting on Sexual Violence: Advocacy, Campaign and a Solutions Journalism Lens 9. How the #MeToo 2.0 Campaign Changed the Way Norwegian Journalists Write About Rape 10. Australian Media, Intersectionality, and Reporting on Violence Against Women from Diverse Backgrounds 11. It’s Personal: An Analysis of Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Violence Victimization in Israel, by Online Textual Testimonies and by VR Illustration 12. Reporting on Sexual Violence During the #MeToo 2.0 Hashtag Era: Can the Media Be an Agent of Social Change?