Online Discourses on Femicide and European Nationalist and Populist Parties: A Quantitative Analysis of the Femicide Discourse in European Social Media Posts.

Social media serves as a dual-edged sword, by both fostering resistance and enabling the dissemination of nationalist ideologies through femicide issues. However, there is minimal research on how nationalist parties in Europe shape representations of femicide. This study used a quantitative analysis...

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Published in:	Violence Against Women Vol. 32; no. 6/7; pp. 1714 - 1736
Main Authors:	Lagrange, Babette, De Sutter, Femke, Ingebretsen, Jim, Ortega-Izquierdo, Rodrigo, Van Bauwel, Sofie, Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Francisco
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. May2026
Subjects:	Europe Political psychology Social media Debate Gender identity Stereotypes Psychology of women Quantitative research Public opinion Social change Mass media Homicide Sentiment analysis Prevention of homicide Elections & psychology Random forest algorithms Boosting algorithms Research funding Receiver operating characteristic curves T-test (Statistics) Logistic regression analysis Descriptive statistics Machine learning Gender-based violence Algorithms Regression analysis
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Summary:	Social media serves as a dual-edged sword, by both fostering resistance and enabling the dissemination of nationalist ideologies through femicide issues. However, there is minimal research on how nationalist parties in Europe shape representations of femicide. This study used a quantitative analysis on femicide representations on X and Facebook-posts across Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Findings indicate that countries with higher nationalist and populist party votes during national parliamentary elections had more interactions, negative sentiments, and new social movements in femicide-related posts, underscoring the potential influence of populist political entities on femicide debates.