Communicating media information about intimate partner violence: transformation process, legitimacy of violence, and gendered dynamics

• Autor(a) principal: Lelaurain, Solveig
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Fonte, David, Aim, Marie-Anastasie, Apostolidis, Themis
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia e Saber Social
• Texto Completo: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/psi-sabersocial/article/view/83376
• topic: Domestic Violence; Social Representations; Communication; Gender; Media

Based on the social representations approach and on the rumor paradigm, this study analyses the propagation and transformation of media information about intimate partner violence in communications between same-sex participants (N = 255). Results of qualitative and quantitative analyses illustrate the impact of pre-existing shared social knowledge on the transformation of the information propagated. They show that men assess violence as more legitimate than women and that this difference increases as intra-group communication progresses. The article concludes with the ideological issues underlying the propagation of information about intimate partner violence and the practical implications for combating this phenomenon.