{"id":5554,"date":"2014-11-01T00:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T00:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2014-11-01T00:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T00:19:01","slug":"is-gamergate-about-media-ethics-or-harassing-women-harassment-the-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5554","title":{"rendered":"Is GamerGate About Media Ethics or Harassing Women? Harassment, the Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PeopleTargeted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5561\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PeopleTargeted-300x97.jpg\" alt=\"PeopleTargeted\" width=\"300\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PeopleTargeted-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PeopleTargeted.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all the GamerGate stories, an interesting move by Newsweek as to commission a study of GamerGate tweets. Taylor Wofford reported about the results in\u00a0an article from October 25th, 2014 that is titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gamergate-about-media-ethics-or-harassing-women-harassment-data-show-279736\">Is GamerGate About Media Ethics or Harassing Women? Harassment, the Data Shows<\/a>. The study was run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandwatch.com\/\">BrandWatch<\/a>\u00a0 and they looked at who was the target of tweets with #gamegate. Low and behold the\u00a0GamerGate\u00a0community seemed more concerned with female game\u00a0designers than journalists which calls into question the claim that\u00a0GamerGate\u00a0is really\u00a0about ethics and games journalism.<\/p>\n<p>We are now gathering tweets too and we will see if we can reproduce the results. At first glance the number of GamerGate tweets seems really low &#8211; they seem to be sampling. It will also be interesting to see if there has been a shift in emphasis in the discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all the GamerGate stories, an interesting move by Newsweek as to commission a study of GamerGate tweets. Taylor Wofford reported about the results in\u00a0an article from October 25th, 2014 that is titled, Is GamerGate About Media Ethics or Harassing Women? Harassment, the Data Shows. The study was run by BrandWatch\u00a0 and they looked at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is GamerGate About Media Ethics or Harassing Women? Harassment, the Data Shows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-text-analysis","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}