Twitter Tweets: How a Twitter Society Values Rape

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Abstract

Compounding on the theoretical work of Marshal McLuhan's Media Theory an analysis is completed looking to justify whether Twitter users for a society that values or devalues rape. This theoretical piece finds that an overwhelming amount of data suggests Twitter users hold Rape to a different standard than they would if it was real life. On the other hand there also appears to be a large number of rape admonishments but not enough in comparison to the overall sample size.

Authors

• Eric F. Bronson, Lamar University

• Justin Templain, Lamar University