Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Incels, or involuntary celibates, are men who are angry and frustrated at their inability to find sexual or intimate partners.This anger has repeatedly resulted in violence against women.Because incels are a relatively new phenomenon, there are many gaps in our knowledge, including how, and to what extent, incel forums function as online communities.The current study begins to fill this lacuna by qualitatively analyzing the incels.coforum to understand how community is created through online discourse.Both inductive and deductive thematic analyses were conducted on 17 threads (3400 posts).The results confirm that the incels.coforum functions as a community.Four themes in relation to community were found: The incel brotherhood; We can disagree, but you're wrong; We are all coping here; and Will the real incel come forward.The four themes elucidate that incels most often exchange informational and emotional support.
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Vanja Zdjelar
Language: English
Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3167992126