The Image of Victim and Criminal in Love Crimes on social media in Egypt: Facebook Discourse Analysis

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Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, British University in Egypt (BUE)

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Egypt has experienced a sries of terrifying love crimes in the last few months. This ‘trend’ of love crimes started with a young man caught on video slaughtering his ex-girlfriend in the street in the city of El Mansoura. Similar crimes followed the death of that young woman in other cities, such as El Sharkia and Port Said. These love crimes provoked a massive wave of contention among all social classes in Egypt. Through a discourse analysis for several Facebook pages, the study results uncovered important results in terms of user perception, and attitude towards the victim and murderer. The study showed that users’ portrayal does not align with the usual attitude in crimes, specifically love crimes as an average of Ten thousand users created the Facebook group to support the murderer, in addition to justifying his action because of the victim-provoking behavior. On the other hand, users reflected cultural values underestimating women's value in Egyptian society.

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