Balci, Utkucan;
Ling, Chen;
De Cristofaro, Emiliano;
Squire, Megan;
Stringhini, Gianluca;
Blackburn, Jeremy;
(2023)
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women’s Ideological Spaces.
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WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023.
(pp. pp. 43-54).
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Abstract
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and vulnerable groups of people. Platforms built to foster social interaction and engagement have enabled historically disenfranchised groups to have a voice. One such vulnerable group is women. In this paper, we explore the diversity in online women’s ideological spaces using a multi-dimensional approach. We perform a large-scale, data-driven analysis of over 6M Reddit comments and submissions from 14 subreddits. We elicit a diverse taxonomy of online women’s ideological spaces, ranging from counterparts to the so-called Manosphere to Gender-Critical Feminism. We then perform content analysis, finding meaningful differences across topics and communities. Finally, we explore two platforms, namely, ovarit.com and thepinkpill.co, where two toxic communities of online women’s ideological spaces (Gender-Critical Feminism and Femcels) migrated after their ban on Reddit.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women’s Ideological Spaces |
| Event: | WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3578503.3583618 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3578503.3583618 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169176 |
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