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Media Manipulation Against Social Justice Researchers: Second-Order Sexual Harassment

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    Identifier:  imarina:7067382
    Authors:  Madrid, A; Joanpere, M; de Botton, L; Campdepadrós, R
    Abstract:
    According to scientific studies, manipulation, which is a key concept in critical discourse analyses, is used to gain control of power against those who act to promote transformations oriented toward social justice. In the case of the struggle against sexual harassment, attacks against people supporting the victims constitute second-order sexual harassment. In this article, we analyze a specific case of media manipulation aiming to silence the brave people who dared speak about gender violence at Spanish universities and acted toward eliminating violence at these universities. Most individuals who had assumed a position against gender violence have been professionally and personally attacked and destroyed by structural powers. In this article, we focus on two aspects. First, we analyze how the group that broke the silence in Spain managed to overcome the attacks by the yellow press. Second, we observe how this group achieved increasing social impact by transforming the universities and gaining the support of their family members, social movements, and most journalists. We performed this analysis using communicative methodology, including interviews with the relatives of the brave people who suffered second-order sexual harassment by certain media and compromised journalists. According to their relatives, by contributing to social justice, their families also improved their lives and family relationships.
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    Link to the original source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800420938853
    APA: Madrid, A; Joanpere, M; de Botton, L; Campdepadrós, R (2020). Media Manipulation Against Social Justice Researchers: Second-Order Sexual Harassment. QUALITATIVE INQUIRY, 26(8-9), 983-988. DOI: 10.1177/1077800420938853
    Paper original source: QUALITATIVE INQUIRY. 26 (8-9): 983-988
    Article's DOI: 10.1177/1077800420938853
    Journal publication year: 2020-10-01
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Record's date: 2026-05-09
    URV's Author/s: Joanpere Foraster, Mar
    Department: Gestió d'Empreses
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
    Author, as appears in the article.: Madrid, A; Joanpere, M; de Botton, L; Campdepadrós, R
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Thematic Areas: Social sciences, interdisciplinary, Social sciences (miscellaneous), Saúde coletiva, Pedagogical & educational research, Medicina i, General o multidisciplinar, Educação, Ciencias sociales, Antropología, Anthropology
    Author's mail: mar.joanpere@urv.cat, mar.joanpere@urv.cat
  • Keywords:

    Social justice
    Second-order harassment
    Media manipulation
    Gender equality
    Anthropology
    Social Sciences (Miscellaneous)
    Social Sciences
    Interdisciplinary
    Saúde coletiva
    Pedagogical & educational research
    Medicina i
    General o multidisciplinar
    Educação
    Ciencias sociales
    Antropología
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