online communities

A white planetary symbol for Venus - used as a gender symbol for women - with a target on it.

Incel communities: an online renewal of the patriarchy

Paper

Jamie Demers

Joana von Borstel

Cosmina Grigorie

Kumbala Loko 🌶️🥵👌

25/03/2022

10 minutes to read

This paper is an exploration of the anti-feminism of the incel community through digital discourse analysis of incel forums.

Exploring Breivik: A “Lone Wolf”s War against Cultural Marxism

Article

Stella Veranoudi

Xiao Lu

Zsófia Molnár

Liza Tóth-Szöllős

03/10/2018

11 minutes to read

This paper provides an analysis of the connection between the online/offline anti-cultural Marxism communities and individuals starting with Anders Breivik, as we study his "2083" manifesto.

Plastic surgery and the quest for the perfect selfie in South Korea

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

Carmen Gabriela Lupu

20/03/2018

15 minutes to read

Plastic surgeries changed the world. In this article, we are going to talk about the measures taken to make an ordinary picture on your Instagram account “on point” and what some are willing to do in order to score those 10.000+ likes.

Infiltrating the Manosphere: An exploration of male-oriented virtual communities from the inside

Article

Laura Vivenzi

Gabriela de la Vega

Lennart Driessen

03/11/2017

13 minutes to read

A small participant observation experiment in the Manosphere teaches us about the nature and rules of communities such as these, visible only in the fringes of the online world and entirely absent from the offline one.

doxing, doxxing, hacking, online communities

Doxing and online communities

Article

Fleur d'Hollosy

18/09/2017

11 minutes to read

Describing how quintessential characteristics of globalization can facilitate in the phenomena of doxing.