An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052095962
Author(s):  
Roberta Liggett O’Malley ◽  
Karen Holt ◽  
Thomas J. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Extremist Groups ◽  
Made In

Incels, a portmanteau of the term involuntary celibates, operate in online communities to discuss difficulties in attaining sexual relationships. Past reports have found that multiple elements of the incel culture are misogynistic and favorable towards violence. Further, several violent incidents have been linked to this community, which suggests that incel communities may resemble other ideologically motivated extremist groups. The current study employed an inductive qualitative analysis of over 8,000 posts made in two online incel communities to identify the norms, values, and beliefs of these groups from a subcultural perspective. Analyses found that the incel community was structured around five interrelated normative orders: the sexual market, women as naturally evil, legitimizing masculinity, male oppression, and violence. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of extremism and the role of the internet in radicalization to violence are considered in depth.

ASPECTS IN BUILDING A COMPANY WEB-SITE AND ITS ROLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Petar Halachev ◽  
Victoria Radeva ◽  
Albena Nikiforova ◽  
Miglena Veneva
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Web ◽  
Design Construction ◽  
Made In ◽  
Site Types

This report is dedicated to the role of the web site as an important tool for presenting business on the Internet. Classification of site types has been made in terms of their application in the business and the types of structures in their construction. The Models of the Life Cycle for designing business websites are analyzed and are outlined their strengths and weaknesses. The stages in the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of a business website are distinguished and the activities and requirements of each stage are specified.

scholarly journals Together Alone: What Students Need from an E-moderator

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane P. Janes
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
Master Of Education ◽  
Made In

It has often been suggested that education via the Internet, or e-learning, leads to a sense of separation in individual learners; this need not be the case. Teaching is a relationship: a relationship that is built on a connection between teaching and learner, between learner and learner, and between the learners and the content. What then is the role of the instructor in moderating online learning? This paper will explore how that connection might be better made in an online environment and will explore the interpersonal or emotive distinctiveness needed in an e-moderator from the perspective of a group of graduate students engaged in an online master of education degree offered in Canada.

scholarly journals The forms of intermediation in the space of Brazilian micro and small-sized enterprises: SEBRAE, from foundation to performance in the 21st century

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanise Rafaela Zivieri Ralio ◽  
Julio Cesar Donadone
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Micro And Small Enterprises ◽  
Made In

Abstract This paper examines the role of the Brazilian service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises – SEBRAE in Brazil in recent decades organizational environment and aims to contribute to the identification and description of your activity, as a way to understand the organizational transformations of the micro and small companies. Achieving this goal, a field survey was carried out in which were raised institutional documents, records and interviews with professionals connected to the institution. Qualitative analysis were made in the material through five sections: products, agents, customers, structure/strategy and scenario. From the chronological analysis of the data, they were organized in three distinct periods. Each of these temporal spaces significant for the institution’s understanding. In this way, it seeks to portray the processes of transformation and redirection through which SEBRAE has passed in each period, from the foundation to the 21st century, and its forms of intermediation of micro and small Brazilian companies.

scholarly journals Sunken ships and screaming banshees: metaphor and evaluation in film reviews

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
MATTEO FUOLI ◽  
JEANNETTE LITTLEMORE ◽  
SARAH TURNER
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Film Reviews ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

It has been suggested that metaphor often performs some sort of evaluative function. However, there have been few empirical studies addressing this issue. Moreover, little is known about the extent to which a metaphor needs to be creative in order to perform an evaluative function, or whether there are differences according to the type of evaluation, such as its degree of explicitness and its polarity. In order to investigate these questions, 94 film reviews from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) were annotated for creative and conventional metaphor, and for positive and negative, inscribed and invoked evaluation. Approximately half of the metaphors in our corpus were found to perform an evaluative function. Creative metaphors were significantly more likely to perform an evaluative function than conventional metaphors. Metaphorical evaluation was found to be significantly more negative than non-metaphorical evaluation. Both creative and conventional metaphors were used more frequently to perform inscribed evaluation than invoked evaluation. However, the tendency towards inscribed evaluation was stronger for conventional metaphors than for creative metaphors. From a theoretical perspective, these findings call into question fundamental assumptions about the role of metaphor in performing evaluation, such as the claim, made in the Systemic Functional Linguistics literature, that metaphor invariably ‘provokes’ attitudinal meanings. We have shown that it can do so, but that it does not always do so. The study also offers methodological contributions, by introducing a new protocol for the annotation of creative metaphors as well as detailed guidelines for coding evaluation at different levels of explicitness.

scholarly journals The Role of Internet/YouTube in the Socialization/Popularization of Science in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Roberta G. Leao ◽  
Reninni Taquini ◽  
Kyria R. Finardi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Internet ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Popularization Of Science

The study aims to analyze how science is socialized and popularized through the internet, more specifically, through the YouTube (YT) platform in Brazil. The study gives a brief presentation of the current socio-historical context in Brazil before presenting the theoretical framework that is based mainly on Michel Foucault's notion of knowledge and power, and its relations with the forms of control in society and on Theodor Adorno's view of mass culture. In order to analyze YouTube's role in the socialization/popularization of science, sixteen YT channels were analyzed in the first semester of 2019. The method used is mixed (Dörnyei, 2007) using a predominantly quantitative approach to measure projection in the internet of the channels analyzed. Qualitative analysis focuses on issues of content and source in the videos analyzed. In general, the analysis of the results suggests that STEM areas have a higher prevalence in the description of the videos. The study concludes with the suggestion that the platform improves the search engine so that users can filter more specific areas of knowledge, thus expanding the potential of the internet and this site in the dissemination and popularization of modern science.

Supporting Local Connections with Online Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Sanna Malinen ◽  
Tytti Virjo ◽  
Sari Kujala
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Online Service ◽  
Online Groups ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
The City

Online communities have become popular among geographically distributed users of the internet. However, there is growing interest in using online communities to support social interaction in geographically-based communities too. In this chapter, we study the value of online sociability and the role of local networking in two different online social internet sites. We present the results of a survey carried out among members of Finnish Facebook groups, and complement the results with interviews for users of a local online service for people living in the surroundings of the city of Helsinki. The goal of this study was to investigate how online groups and services with local content connect with real-life networks and sociability, or whether they remain separated. The results show that Facebook is used mainly for nourishing existing friendships online and less for meeting or looking for information on new people. However, Facebook groups are often connected to real-life activities and places, thus local connections and networks play an important role in the use of Facebook. For the users of the local online service My City, the strong local identity experienced and attachment to the place of residence were important motivators for active participation and the creation of content.

A grammatical construction in the service of interpersonal distance regulation. The case of the Polish directive infinitive construction

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Agata Kochańska
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Interpersonal Distance ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Grammatical Construction ◽  
Distance Regulation ◽  
Made In ◽  
National Corpus

Abstract The aim of the paper is to consider the pragmatic effects of the Polish (Proszę) ‘request1 SG. NON-PAST.’ + VINF construction in different contexts. The specific research problem is how these effects are related to the conceptual make-up of the construction. The framework for the analysis is the theory of cognitive grammar (cf. e. g. Langacker 1987, 1991, 2008, 2009). The analysis starts with an account of the conceptual make-up of the construction. Then, its selected uses are considered, with emphasis on the pragmatic effects in the relevant contexts. The study offers a qualitative analysis of two kinds of data: a sample of hand-picked utterances and a corpus of utterances extracted from the National Corpus of Polish (NCP). The claim made in the study is that the construction profiles a process figuring in a directive scenario in the role of the process the speaker wishes the hearer to engage in. At the same time, it involves defocusing of the trajector of the profiled process, identified with the hearer. The construction’s pragmatic effects in specific contexts are claimed to follow from how this trajector defocusing is put in correspondence with specific aspects of the actual ground.

Guardians of the Internet: Building and Sustaining the Anonymous Online Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 959-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe G Massa
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Political Groups

Online communities have displaced or become complements to organizations such as churches, labor unions and political groups which have traditionally been at the center of collective action. Yet, despite their growing influence and support of faster, cheaper and more flexible organizing, few empirical studies address how online communities are built and become enduring agents of social change. Using Internet-based ethnographic methods, this inductive field study examines how an online community called Anonymous transitioned from being a small gathering of contributors focused on recreation to becoming a community of trolls, activists and hackers incubating myriad projects. Findings reveal that the interplay of digital technology and a culture of transgression supported experimentation that culminated with the adoption of a resilient organizing platform that enabled several community factions to coexist in continuous engagement. This paper infuses community building research with an important emphasis on the role of the techno-cultural, highlighting how online formation and maintenance processes are shaped and shape mutually contingent technologies and cultures.

Movement Societies and Digital Protest: Fan Activism and Other Nonpolitical Protest Online

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Earl ◽  
Katrina Kimport
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Made In

Sociologists of culture studying “fan activism” have noted an apparent increase in its volume, which they attribute to the growing use of the Internet to register fan claims. However, scholars have yet to measure the extent of contemporary fan activism, account for why fan discontent has been expressed through protest, or precisely specify the role of the Internet in this expansion. We argue that these questions can be addressed by drawing on a growing body of work by social movement scholars on “movement societies,” and more particularly on a nascent thread of this approach we develop that theorizes the appropriation of protest practices for causes outside the purview of traditional social movements. Theorizing that the Internet, as a new media, is positioned to accelerate the diffusion of protest practices, we develop and test hypotheses about the use of movement practices for fan activism and other nonpolitical claims online using data on claims made in quasi-random samples of online petitions, boycotts, and e-mailing or letter-writing campaigns. Results are supportive of our hypotheses, showing that diverse claims are being pursued online, including culturally-oriented and consumer-based claims that look very different from traditional social movement claims. Findings have implications for students of social movements, sociologists of culture, and Internet studies.

scholarly journals Networked Field Studies: Comparative Inquiry and Online Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630511774313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessa Lingel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Comparative Inquiry

In this article, I articulate a methodology for comparative qualitative analysis of online communities, which I refer to as networked field studies. I describe networked field studies as an approach that allows for looking across multiple communities and field sites to build a coherent set of analytical claims about the role of technology and everyday life, drawing on my own research investigating relationships to digital technologies among three countercultural communities. The major aim of this article is to contribute to methodological discussions on comparative qualitative analysis within Internet studies, foregrounding how research on digital technologies can both benefit from and complicate a comparative approach. After a brief summary of the communities studied in the research that has given rise to this methodological approach, I outline key methodological concepts and address the strengths and limitations of networked field studies as a method for analyzing socio-technical practices in everyday life.

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