A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem
A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem
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Incel网络生态系统中暴力极端主义语言的历时跨平台分析
DOI：
10.1080/09546553.2022.2161373
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Baele S
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作者：
Baele S
到目前为止，网络上incel亚文化的出现和发展已经引发了相当多的研究，其中大多数是分析其世界观或绘制其在更广泛的管理圈中的位置和联系。虽然这项研究在很大程度上增强了我们对网络亚文化现象的理解，但它倾向于提供一种静态的、一维的描述，就像所有在线亚文化和社区一样，这是一个高度动态的、多层次的环境。因此，我们缺乏足够细致的答案来回答一个对执法部门和学术界来说都很关键的问题：这是一种暴力极端主义意识形态吗？使用一个独特的广泛的语料库，涵盖了多年来构成incelsphere的一系列在线空间，我们分析了incellanguage在时间和平台上的演变。具体来说，我们测试了这种语言是否随着网络空间的关闭和其他语言的出现而变得越来越极端。我们的研究结果表明，虽然暴力极端主义语言的水平在互联网世界中确实有所不同，但在过去6年里，它们在主要的网络空间中稳步上升。此外，我们证明，尽管这些在线空间的活动对线下事件有响应，但这些活动对暴力极端主义思想的影响并不统一。
The emergence and growth of incel subculture online has triggered a considerable body of research to date, most of which analyzing its worldview or mapping its position and connections within the broader manosphere. While this research has considerably enhanced our understanding of the incel phenomenon, it tends to offer a somewhat static, one-dimensional portrayal of what is—like all online subcultures and communities—a highly dynamic and multi-layered environment. Consequently, we lack sufficiently nuanced answers to what is arguably a critical question for law enforcement and academics alike: is this a violent extremist ideology? Using a uniquely extensive corpus covering a range of online spaces constitutive of the incelosphere spanning several years, we analyze the evolution of incel language across both time and platforms. Specifically, we test whether this language has grown more extreme over time as online spaces shutdown and others emerged. Our findings demonstrate that, while levels of violent extremist language do vary across the incelosphere, they have steadily increased in the main online spaces over the past 6 years. Further, we demonstrate that, while activity on these online spaces is responsive to offline events, the impact of these on violent extremist ideation is not uniform.