MeToo Movement

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MeToo Movement
The materials we will find to begin our research will include tweets, news media articles, government records, lawsuits, legislative changes and publications related to the accusations. To narrow down our search, we will cross-reference multiple articles listing all political officials accused from the #metoo movement three months before and after October 2017. For the analysis, we will focus on major news media outlets such as NPR, Fox News, CNN, NBC, and PBS.
Our timeline and scope of research will keep our sample within a timeframe small enough to maintain its relevance to current events. Most of our study will come from publications and tweets written in the last three to nine months. We will analyze the relationship between the accusations made on Twitter, reports from major media publications, and real-world repercussions to politicians (Sekaran and Roger, 333). These repercussions could include lawsuits, job loss, public shaming through social media, punitive action, and legislative changes.
Further, we will look at Twitter, legislation, and articles from the listed news sources to determine their positive or negative outlook on each sexual assault/harassment accusation (Sekaran and Roger, 334). This will be a quantitative analysis of a qualitative data set. It will then be compiled and used to create our conclusion regarding how media has influenced politics via the #metoo movement.
To compile and organize data and findings from all group members, we have created a shared spreadsheet through Google Docs.

The spreadsheet will enable us to keep track of specific data including the type of accusation, repercussions, date of accusation, Twitter reaction, major media reaction, level of attention, legislative change, legal action, and the relationship between the accused and accuser (Sekaran and Roger, 334). Similarly, we will compare the number of accusations found before and after the Weinstein accusations began through Twitter (October 2017) to analyze how the #metoo movement affected the number of people coming forward about their situations.
Works Cited
Sekaran, Uma, and Roger Bougie. Research methods for business: A skill building approach. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.