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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Incel"”.
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Suicidal Ideation Detection in Incel Forums
… safe user experiences, while others, such as the incel community, allow free speech and promote having no censorship. While many discussions in incel forums deal with their shared hate for women, there are numerous posts about individuals’ suicidal thoughts and plans. On top of suicide being a …
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Connecting neoliberal ideology and incel ideology
Incels are an online transgressive subculture holding misogynistic views of women, including the belief that women unfairly refuse them sex. While there have been few heinous physical attacks by individuals self-identifying as incels, their ideologies also pose a significant threat to the struggle …
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Platforming Hate: An Analysis of Incel Ideology on Reddit’s r/Braincels
Involuntary celibates, or ‘incels’, are a community of antifeminist extremists who have recently risen to prominence within the Manosphere (Ribeiro et al. 2020), which is defined as a loose coalition of websites, blogs, and social media groups where men congregate to air their grievances with …
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“Misogyny is Self Defense”: A Critical Analysis of Incel Discourse and Belief on Incels.is
This research aims to understand who Incels are as a community and how they radicalize and incite gender-based violence. I engage in a thematic and critical discourse analysis of discussion posts from popular Incels website Incels.is to uncover the ways in which the discourses employed by Incels …
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Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions
Incel, an online community of men connected through their shared lack of intimate relationships with women, is often described as a monolithic misogynist group of privileged and entitled white men. My research has revealed that, contrary to this dominant narrative, Incel is a racially diverse space …
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… self-identifies as “involuntary celibates”, or “incels”. Drawing on data collected from online forums and chat rooms, the language and discourse of this particular group are analyzed through an integrated conceptual framework encompassing hegemonic masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and …
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The Crisis of Chad: Men’s Rights Movements and Contemporary Anti-feminism
… analyzes the relationship between the modern incel and manosphere movement, and its historical legacies in anti-feminist discourses in late 20th century men's rights movements. The manosphere is a collection of online videos, forums, blogs, and websites dedicated to raising awareness or …
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Masculinity Threat, Misogyny, and the Celebration of Violence in White Men
… measure, which assesses traits associated with incels, who believe that social liberalism, feminism, and more sexually active men (“Chads”) are to blame for their lack of sex with women. Incels are largely a disorganized group of men interacting online, but a few self-identifying members have …
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No Girls Allowed: How incels.is Operates as a Gendered Discursive Space
Incel is a short term used to reference involuntary celibates, a group once created to afford lonely people a place to exist without judgement, but now, co-opted into an ideologically motivated extremist community, existing under a misogynistic belief system (Ging 2019; Kelly and Aunspach 2020). …
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“Foids have no soul, they are not human.” A sociological examination of the language used by an online male supremacy group.
The online incel community has seen a rise in participation and mainstream media attention, largely due to recent mass murders targeting women committed by self-identified members. Scholarship has therefore focused on the community’s relationship to violence and its highly misogynistic nature. Jock …
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Mapping Supremacist Ideologies: A Computational and Qualitative Examination of Ideological Cross-Pollination between Extreme Misogynistic and Alt-Right Ecosystems on the Internet
… the intersection between hegemonic discourses in incel, red pill/wider manosphere, and alt-right spaces, with emphasis on how networked technologies directly enable this. This provides a better understanding of conflicted supremacist radicalisation and networks online, emphasising the role of …