Jiyoun Suk
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Jiyoun Suk
@jiyoun-suk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of big data and diversity at University of Connecticut | PhD in Mass Comm at UW-Madison | Social activism | Digital media, politics & gender | Mis/disinformation | Computational Social Science
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November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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From activism to polarization: temporal dynamics of #MeToo politicization on Twitter/X
This study is focused on how social media activism is politicized over time, attending to diverse groups of users and their response to real-world events on social media. Extending the scholarship ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
And behind a lot of that?
👉 High-profile elites: politicians, influencers, and partisan media

Their tweets got amplified through retweets, driving this politicization process of #MeToo

#MeToo on Twitter/X didn’t just “go political.” Episodically and asymmetrically politicized, driven by elites.
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Here’s what we found:
1️⃣ Partisans were dominant right at the start (late 2017), their overall share trended DOWNWARD over the three-year study
2️⃣ Once partisans started talking, they stayed loud longer
3️⃣ Partisan groups *selectively* jumped in based on the accused person's party affiliation
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Who was tweeting? Our user clustering shows:
• Partisans: 47.2% of tweets
• Attentive Publics (General audience/non-aligned): 30.3%
• Anti-Sexual Violence Activists: 5.9%

We tested three ways politics takes over:
1) Crowding out activist voices,
2) Sustained voice, and
3) Selective targeting 2/
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