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1. Introduction: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media

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Social media platforms have grown by leaps and bounds over the past eight years, as has social media activism against sexual violence. The intensification of the #MeToo Movement in 2017 has spurred the emergence of many additional transnational movements against sexual violence including the #MeToo Movement. Indeed, 2017 is now considered a watershed year, when millions of women across the world said #TimesUp to sexual violence of all kinds and when the violence was not only steeped in patriarchal power, but also protected by it.

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: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.,
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