The sentence of «La manada» on twitter. Revolutionizing social representations about the rape culture

Abstract

This paper aimed to know discourse built on Twitter about the case of group rape called «La Manada» and to observe its impact on society. To this end, an analysis of the lexical content was carried out on the tweets that were published with the hashtag #lamanada for 4 weeks around the publication of the sentence. Two interpretations are generally highlighted: The feminist discourse, which called for social mobilization, defended the victim and spread the discourse against the culture of rape and the anti-feminist discourse, which blames the victim and goes against the feminist discourse.