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How is activism described and legitimized in different media?What are the consequences of #metoo for different sectors? How are activists, journalists, union representatives, and employers affected?How can we design strategies and tools supporting the participating processes the #metoo activism represents?In this 4 years long interdisciplinary research project, we will investigate this locally situated and globally connected movement, with a mix methods approach and from different scientific perspectives: Computer and Systems Sciences, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Media and Communication Studies."},"project_id":"2018-01824_VR","identifier_short":"2018-01824","dates":{"start_date":"2019-01-01","end_date":"2022-12-31"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":2,"id":"202100-5208","sv":"Vetenskapsrådet","en":"Swedish Research Council"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":481,"id":"202100-4896","sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"_id":"authority-person:83687","orcid":"0000-0002-5962-1536","name":"Hansson, Karin","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":11835,"sv":"Medieteknik","en":"Media Technology","parent":[{"_id":11831,"sv":"Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik","en":"School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies","parent":[{"_id":481,"id":"202100-4896","sv":"Södertörns högskola","en":"Södertörn University"}]}]}]}]},{"other_personnel":[{"_id":"authority-person:85248","orcid":"0000-0003-4774-5555","name":"Ganetz, Hillevi","role":"co_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":7759,"sv":"Genusvetenskap","en":"Gender Studies","parent":[{"_id":7758,"sv":"Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap","en":"Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies","parent":[{"_id":535,"sv":"Humanistiska fakulteten","en":"Faculty of Humanities","parent":[{"_id":504,"sv":"Stockholms universitet","en":"Stockholm University"}]}]}]},{}]},{"name":"Sveningsson, Malin","role":"co_investigator","affiliation":[{"sv":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]}]}],"tags":[{"_id":11763,"id":"50801","sv":"Medievetenskap","en":"Media Studies"},{"_id":11765,"id":"50803","sv":"Mänsklig interaktion med IKT","en":"Human Aspects of ICT"},{"_id":11804,"id":"50804","sv":"Systemvetenskap, informationssystem och informatik med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning","en":"Information Systems, Social aspects"}],"titles":{"sv":"#metoo-aktivism i Sverige: Utveckling, konsekvenser, strategier","en":"#metoo activism in Sweden: Development, consequences, strategies"},"type_of_awards":{"sv":"Projektbidrag","en":"Project grant"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:1993144","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2026]]},"title":"Sexual Harassment as Reification : #MeToo in the Cultural and Creative Industries in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","ORCID":"0000-0003-4774-5555","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-3187-1162","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"In this article, drawing on 20 interviews with participants in the #MeToo petitions #deadline and #konstnärligfrihet [artisticfreedom], we explore the significance of sexual harassment in Sweden's cultural and creative industries. Our findings demonstrate how sexual harassment serves as a particularly effective tool of oppression in precarious work situations where individuals rely on informal social networks to secure work. To obtain and sustain work in this environment, an individual must gain recognition as an important — preferably indispensable — part of this social fabric. These dynamics can be understood through a bodily ontology of vulnerability, where vulnerability serves both as the emotional glue holding these networks together and as a source of anxiety, as inclusion depends on the validation of others. Another distinctive aspect of these contexts is the commodification of vulnerability within the professional role, as the value being exchanged is largely tied to the individual's perceived brilliance. Under these working conditions, sexual harassment functions as a form of reification, damaging relationships within the network while simultaneously diminishing the value of participants’ “genius.” #MeToo activism servedas a means of resisting the reification process by recognizing a collective vulnerability.","DOI":"10.1111/gwao.70028","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-105012608672","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57981","issue":"1","volume":"33","page":"67-79","container-title":"Gender, Work and Organization","ISSN":"1468-0432","keyword":"#MeToo; bodily ontology of vulnerability; cultural and creative industries; reification; sexual harassment; RECOGNITION","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","published":[{"raw":"2025-08-29T09:31:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-08-29T09:31:28.149+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-12-10T16:15:39.868+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-57981"},{"id":"diva2:1851610","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"#MeToo in the Manosphere : The Formation of a Counter Discourse on the Swedish Online Forum Flashback","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"In Sweden, a relative consensus of liberal and feminist values has long been dominant in public discourse. This could be observed in coverage of the #MeToo movement, which was largely presented in a positive light by legacy media, where critical voices were instead found on alternative and social media. This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the impact of #MeToo beyond the mainstream discourse by investigating how #MeToo was discussed on the online forum Flashback during the period spanning October-December 2017. Our findings show how the #MeToo debate in this forum reproduced an anti-feminist discourse from the manosphere but also challenged it, as attitudes towards sexual harassment were negotiated and reframed in dialogue with mainstream media. #MeToo thus also contributed to an increased awareness about sexual harassment in this context. However, while a feminist agenda was being strengthened in legacy media, the anti-feminist views on Flashback became more pronounced. Interestingly, while the dominant feminist discourse around Swedish #MeToo avoided the concept \"feminism\", it was often used in this counter discourse on Flashback, where it signified a hated, albeit powerful and transformative, force in society.","DOI":"10.1080/08038740.2024.2330381","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85189802904","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53817","issue":"2","volume":"32","page":"173-187","container-title":"NORA","ISSN":"1502-394X","keyword":"#MeToo; anti-feminism; feminism; counter discourse; manosphere","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","published":[{"raw":"2024-04-15T13:25:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2024-04-15T13:25:25.374+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:22:11.447+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-53817"},{"id":"diva2:1923925","type":"article-journal","status":"Epub ahead of print","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"Processes of recognition : from connective to collective action in the Swedish #MeToo movement","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","ORCID":"0000-0002-3187-1162","affiliation":[{"name":"Gothenburg University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","ORCID":"0000-0003-4774-5555","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"One of the most exciting aspects of #MeToo is how the movementachieved global recognition for the problem of sexual harassment.In Sweden over 75 #MeToo groups were created during 2017–2019in different sectors of society, establishing a broad recognition ofthe problem as structural. Through interviews with 20 activists, thisstudy highlights how the movement gained strength through inter-connected levels of recognition, with social media playing a keyrole in facilitating collective action and expanding a feminist dis-course. The article also nuances the concept of “recognition” byadapting it to a public sphere transformed by digital media whereheterogeneous groups take connective action through persona-lized action frames. The result shows how recognition was devel-oped on several levels: On a personal level, in admitting to oneselfthat one had suffered from, or been part of, oppression. On a sociallevel, social media enabled large groups to interact in intimatepublics while obscuring the vast heterogeneity of the participants,allowing participants to use their shared differences as a base forcollective action. On a political level, the activism strengtheneda feminist agenda in the public sphere. The movement was alsogiven recognition at a formal level, influencing laws and policies.","DOI":"10.1080/14680777.2024.2443000","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85213266642","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55968","page":"1-18","container-title":"Feminist Media Studies","ISSN":"1471-5902","keyword":"#MeToo; affective dissonance; processes of recognition; shared differences; relations of recognition; intimate publics; connective action","publisher":"Taylor & Francis","published":[{"raw":"2025-01-02T08:58:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2025-01-02T08:58:06.646+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:25:16.070+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55968"},{"id":"diva2:1753938","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"The significance of feminist infrastructure : #MeToo in the construction industry and the green industry in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Gothenburg, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"To better understand the interplay between digital activism and feminist infrastructure, this study investigates #MeToo activism in the Swedish construction industry and green industry. Both are industries in transition characterized by a dissonance between formal incentives, that encourage women and others to work in environments previously dominated by white men, and the informal power structures hosting a toxic masculinity. Based on media texts and interviews with key persons from the industries, the article situates #MeToo in a local context and shows how it was embedded in a supportive social, cultural, and technical infrastructure. In both industries, at the time of #MeToo this feminist infrastructure was already in place consisting of: an awareness of the problem of sexual harassment and abuse, knowledge of feminist explanatory models, established feminist online networks, and a supportive feminist culture, which together with widespread digital and feminist literacy became instrumental in the organization of the movement. Social media connected activists and created a critical mass by supporting the uniting of conflicting identity positions around shared differences. The established feminist infrastructure meant that the #MeToo activism, by articulating a widespread affective dissonance, pushed open doors that were already half open and forced them wide. This can explain some of the movement's success in Sweden.","DOI":"10.1111/gwao.12994","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85152449890","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51402","issue":"3","volume":"31","page":"1092-1112","container-title":"Gender, Work and Organization","ISSN":"1468-0432","publisher":"John Wiley & Sons","published":[{"raw":"2023-05-02T08:44:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-05-02T08:44:00.140+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T11:24:40.674+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51402"},{"id":"diva2:1753940","type":"report","issued":{"date-parts":[[2023]]},"title":"#metoo-aktivismen i Sverige : Förklaringar, betydelser och strategier","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholms universitet, Sverige"}]}],"NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51403","number-of-pages":"25","publisher-place":"Angered","publisher":"Jämställdhetsmyndigheten","published":[{"raw":"2023-05-02T08:53:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-05-02T08:53:34.414+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:22:59.348+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51403"},{"id":"diva2:1720957","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"Att legitimera en feministisk agenda : #metoo-uppropen i svenska nyhetsmedier","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholms universitet, Sverige"}]}],"ISBN":"9789189361492","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50417","page":"127-141","container-title":"Maktordningar och motstånd : Forskarperspektiv på #metoo i Sverige","publisher-place":"Lund","publisher":"Nordic Academic Press","note":"[ed] Hillevi Ganetz; 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Using a media timeline and semi-structured interviews, this article aims to situate #metoo in a larger narrative and investigate how sexual harassment within the Swedish art industry is explained and understood by 13 activists and representatives of art institutions.Our results show that there is a strong connection between oppression and economic exploitation. The art industry is characterized by precarious economic and social relations, but also by the idea of the genius and elitist ambitions of standing outside the social order and embodying an unexploitable particularity. This combination is crucial to understanding sexual harassment in the industry. A central theme in the interviews was the feeling of grief and frustration of not being allowed to work freely as an artist but forced to constantly navigate invisible but tangible structures. These structures are maintained performatively through various acts of oppression that are part of a reification process, which systematically limits the livability of the exposed identities. During #metoo, this reification process was counteracted and turned against the oppressors themselves through an objectification of “men” as oppressors. Another finding relates to the interviewees’ understanding of sexual harassment as based upon power. Here, the positions of powerful and powerless were not univocal. As power intertwines with desire and vulnerability, oppressive acts can be multifaceted and ambivalent, and take place as part of a dynamic negotiation of positions in the informal economic system.","DOI":"10.55870/tgv.v43i1.10549","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50613","issue":"1","volume":"43","page":"49-71","container-title":"Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap","ISSN":"2001-1377","keyword":"#metoo; #konstnärligfrihet; reification; culture of silence; exploitation","publisher":"Amnesforeningen for genusvetenskap","published":[{"raw":"2023-01-12T08:50:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-01-12T08:50:19.096+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:21:10.124+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50613"},{"id":"diva2:1719214","type":"book","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"Maktordningar och motstånd : forskarperspektiv på #metoo i Sverige","language":"swe","editor":[{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholms universitet, Sverige"}]},{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]}],"abstract":"Den svenska #metoo-rörelsen samlade under sina första två år (2017–2019) mer än 100 000 deltagare från över 70 olika yrken och samhällsområden. I Maktordningar och motstånd belyser en grupp forskare rörelsen ur olika perspektiv och tecknar en flerdimensionell bild av hur #metoo-aktivismen i Sverige utvecklades i samspelet mellan teknik och kultur, sociala och traditionella medier, och enskilda aktörers initiativ.Genom nedslag i olika miljöer visar forskarna hur ett strukturellt förtryck i form av sexism, sexuella trakasserier och sexuellt våld uttrycks och förklaras. De visar även hur förtrycket normaliseras och förstärks i sammanhang som kännetecknas av gränslösa beteenden, maskulinitetsgörande och en utbredd tystnadskultur. Inte minst viktigt framkommer i studien att sexuella trakasserier handlar om maktutövning. Förtrycket blir särskilt tydligt i branscher där många arbetar under prekära omständigheter och där bristen på utvägar ökar risken för de som vågar säga ifrån. Forskningsresultaten visar också hur olika diskriminerande grunder, som till exempel kön, ålder och anställningsform samverkar.Boken ger en överblick över den svenska #metoo-rörelsens utveckling samt ger en större kunskap om särskilda riskfaktorer. Författarna pekar även ut strategier för att motverka förtryck och möjliggöra förändring.","ISBN":"9789189361492","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50373","number-of-pages":"352","publisher-place":"Lund","publisher":"Nordic Academic Press","published":[{"raw":"2022-12-14T15:38:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-12-14T15:38:11.280+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T08:57:24.436+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50373"},{"id":"diva2:1719357","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"#metoo – ett tvärsnitt genom samhället","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholms universitet, Sverige"}]},{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]}],"ISBN":"9789189361492","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50376","page":"7-20","container-title":"Maktordningar och motstånd : Forskarperspektiv på #metoo i Sverige","keyword":"#metoo; feministisk aktivism; jämställdhetsarbete; nätaktivism; sexuella trakasserier","publisher-place":"Lund","publisher":"Nordic Academic Press","note":"[ed] Hillevi Ganetz; Karin Hansson; Malin Sveningsson","published":[{"raw":"2022-12-15T08:31:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-12-15T08:31:02.548+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T08:58:32.387+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50376"},{"id":"diva2:1719355","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2022]]},"title":"”Något annat än ’vem ska hängas ut nu?’” : En innehållsanalys av svenska tidningars rapportering före och under uppropen","language":"swe","author":[{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Göteborgs universitet, Sverige"}]},{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholms universitet, Sverige"}]}],"ISBN":"9789189361492","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50375","page":"21-61","container-title":"Maktordningar och motstånd : Forskarperspektiv på #metoo i Sverige","keyword":"#metoo; feministisk aktivism; jämställdhetsarbete; nätaktivism; sexuella trakasserier","publisher-place":"Lund","publisher":"Nordic Academic Press","note":"[ed] Hillevi Ganetz; Karin Hansson; Malin Sveningsson","published":[{"raw":"2022-12-15T08:28:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2022-12-15T08:28:19.263+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:34:10.802+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-50375"},{"id":"diva2:1609461","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"Materializing activism","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Pargman","given":"Teresa Cerratto","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Bardzell","given":"Shaowen","affiliation":[{"name":"Penn State University, State College, University Park, PA, USA"}]}],"abstract":"Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.","DOI":"10.1007/s10606-021-09412-5","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85117783244","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46695","volume":"30","page":"617-626","container-title":"Computer Supported Cooperative Work","ISSN":"1573-7551","publisher":"Springer","published":[{"raw":"2021-11-08T14:18:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2021-11-08T14:18:10.996+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T11:28:41.783+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46695"},{"id":"diva2:1609448","type":"article-journal","status":"Published","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"Organizing Safe Spaces : #MeToo Activism in Sweden","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Hansson","given":"Karin","ORCID":"0000-0002-5962-1536","localId":"kaha21","affiliation":[{"id":"11835","name":"Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik"}]},{"family":"Sveningsson","given":"Malin","affiliation":[{"name":"Gothenburg University, Sweden"}]},{"family":"Ganetz","given":"Hillevi","affiliation":[{"name":"Stockholm University, Sweden"}]}],"abstract":"Networked online environments can effectively support political activism. In Sweden, the #metoo movement resulted in over 100,000 people participating in activities challenging sexual harassment and abuse, including collecting testimonies via social media and drafting and discussing petitions published in print news media. Participation involved many risks, such as social stigma, losing one’s job, or misogynist terrorism, which meant that participation required a high level of trust among peers. Human-computer interaction (HCI) research on trust generally focuses on technical systems or user-generated data, less focus has been given to trust among peers in vulnerable communities. This study, based on semi-structured interviews and surveys of participants and organizers of 47 petitions representing different sectors in society, found that trust was aggregated over networks of people, practices, institutions, shared values, and technical systems. Although a supportive culture based on a feeling of solidarity and shared feminist values was central for safe spaces for participation, when activism was scaled up, social interaction had to be limited due to increased risk. HCI research views trust as a process of crossing distances, increasing over time; however, our results reveal that trust decreased over time as the movement grew and public exposure increased, a trend most evident when the participants actually came from a tightly knit community. Therefore, this study points out the significance to balance the need for transparency and community with the need for anonymity and distance in the development of tools to support large-scale deliberative processes that involve conflicts and risks.","DOI":"10.1007/s10606-021-09410-7","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85118542243","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46694","volume":"30","page":"651-682","container-title":"Computer Supported Cooperative Work","ISSN":"1573-7551","keyword":"Hashtag activism; Metoo; Net activism; Trust; Social movements","publisher":"Springer","published":[{"raw":"2021-11-08T14:09:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2021-11-08T14:09:09.687+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-10-20T12:23:45.448+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46694"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:3002"}]}]