在2024年美国总统大选期间的年龄歧视:对推特的专题分析
Juanita-Dawne R Bacsu1, Ali Akbar Jamali2, Alixe Ménard3
1School of Nursing, Thompson Rivers University, 805 TRU Way Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 0C8 Canada Tel: (306) 250-4399.
The Gerontologist
|July 27, 2025
概括
社交媒体的帖子揭示了2024年美国总统大选期间的年龄歧视话语,专注于年龄作为弱点和感知不称职. 这种年龄歧视将重点从政策转移到刻板印象,影响到年长的政治领导人.
科学领域:
- 政治科学 政治科学是指政治学.
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 沟通研究 沟通研究
背景情况:
- 2024年美国总统大选以历史上两位最年长的候选人为特色,引发了年龄歧视言论和要求总统年龄限制的呼吁.
- 尽管存在普遍的年龄歧视情绪,但在选举期间对社交媒体年龄歧视的研究仍然有限.
研究的目的:
- 分析2024年美国总统大选期间社交媒体上的年龄歧视,特别是乔·拜登和唐纳德·特朗普之间的年龄歧视.
- 了解社交媒体平台如何围绕政治候选人的年龄进行讨论.
主要方法:
- 在选举活动 (11-25年2月2024日) 期间,从X (以前的Twitter) 收集了1,254条相关帖子.
- 编码的帖子一行一行,并进行了专题分析,以确定年龄主义话语中的模式.
- 通过审计轨迹确保了严谨性,并在主题分析中确保了评审人员之间的可靠性.
主要成果:
- 确定了年龄歧视的四个关键主题:年龄作为固有的弱点,与痴呆症相关的耻辱,老年人的非人道化,以及对被认为无能的恐惧.
- 年龄主义语言的例子包括"他们都太老了"和"古代化石正在竞选".
- 年龄主义话语主要关注候选人的年龄,而不是他们的政策立场.
结论:
- 社交媒体的年龄歧视通过在政策讨论中推广刻板印象来破坏年长的政治领导人.
- 进一步的研究至关重要,以了解年龄主义话语对选举活动和公众看法的全部影响.
- 调查结果强调,需要制定战略,在政治沟通中打击基于年龄的刻板印象.
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