Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1455460
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- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3292522.3326045
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- WebSci19
- First page
- 87
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This paper, nominated for Best Paper at WebSci2019, the top Web Science Conference, and covered by WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/misogyny-reddit-research/) and BBCRadio4 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009rjr), proposes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to mine patterns of misogyny within the manosphere. The research systematically demonstrates through the first large scale study of this topic (6M posts over 7 years) that misogynist rhetoric has been increasing in frequency and violence. The generated lexicon of misogyny has been crucial to further investigate this topic across the Web (Ribeiro, Manoel Horta, et al., ICWSM 2021). Results have been fed into the UK's parliamentary enquiry (https://committees.parliament.uk/work/232/online-harms-and-disinformation/publications/) on online harms.
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- Non-English
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