The first in a series of factsheets concerned with Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny analysed social media data from June 1 – 30. Highlights include conversation around Father’s Day and Men’s Mental Health month. Read full report
This fact sheet accompanies Report 9 in our series of Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny social media analytics reporting, with this edition unpacking inequality in the labour force. The fact sheet presents and summarises the full reports focus areas and recommendations Read full report
Report 9 in our series of Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny social media analytics reporting unpacks inequality in the labour force. Conversation around women in the labour force is polarised and views align broadly within two camps, a religious-moral traditionalism juxtaposed with a perspective rooted in progressivism and gender equality. We explored three focus areas namely; …
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Report 8 in our series of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Misogyny social media analytics reporting analyses the followership and engagement metrics garnered by 20 organisational accounts in the GBV space, as well as the share of followership and engagement across diverse social media platforms. The report concludes by highlighting sample posts shared by the assessed …
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Report 7 in our series of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Misogyny social media analytics reporting unpacks online conversation during November and the 16 Days of Activism period. The 16 Days of Activism section focused on organisational campaigns as well as general trends in the conversation around that time. The individual expressions section focused on highlighting …
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The 6th heCareZA report unpacks two areas within online conversation about gender and misogyny during the month of September. The macro themes section, focused on the highest traction content during the month, delves into perceptions toward spousal support and perceived gender hypocrisies as well as female submission and fatherhood. The individual expressions section focused on …
The 5th heCareZA report explores co-parenting and child abuse, value judgements based on dating behaviour, and the phenomenon of “simping”, used to describe men who are perceived to value women above themselves. The report offers engagement avenues related to perceptions of masculinity and explores digital strategies to facilitate conversation with men on experiences of trauma. …
This social media analytics report focuses on misogynistic conversations in South Africa covering the month of June 2023. We present a comprehensive overview of the volume, engagement, and key themes that emerged during the reporting period. While the conversation remained stable overall, we observed a notable peak towards the end of the month. We explored …
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This social media analytics report focused on xenophobic conversations in South Africa covering the period 01 March 2023 – 31 March 2023. The report found that the dominance of the Economic Freedom Fighter’s national shutdown protest within the conversation speaks to the extent to which the conversation about immigrants in South Africa is increasingly being …
This report details the interactions between men and women on South African Twitter between 1 February – 28 February 2023.The report aims to generate a deeper understanding of gender discrimination through an analysis of conversations on public social media. Two focus areas – fatherhood and gender-based violence and misogyny – were identified and used to …
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