Gender Aspect of Victim-Blaming Discourse: Modern Russian Internet Media Study

Student: Mikheeva Ekaterina

Educational Programme: Advertising and Public Relations (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

The present study aims to describe how the gender of the victim is influencing the victim-blaming discourse in the field of modern Russian Internet media. A very limited amount of studies on victim-blaming discourse and gender-based violence include the violence towards men and the aspect of them being the objects of that discourse, even though such cases do exist in a smaller proportion to the same cases towards women. Therefore, using methods of discourse, frame, and content analysis (studying the comments and opinions published on Russian Internet media resources) it is expected to define how gender is influencing the victim-blaming discourse.

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