Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: While internet provides many advantages about ideologies to spread and find followers, also can be a place where hate speech and harassment toward women exist. Violent behaviors found to have a relationship between a heterosexual male groups named manosphere. While manosphere consists more than one subgroups, it is found that the most violent and extremist one is incels. This study aims to present online hostile ideologies toward women through incel community. In this direction, the place of incel community in mesosphere, its attitudes toward women, and used language and jargon are examined. Also vio-lent acts of people who are self descriptive incels are reviewed. All in all, fea-tures of online misogynist communities, especially incels and their social-cultural importance are discussed within the scope of relevant literature.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Author: Temelli, Ecenur
Institution: Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa
Language: Turkish
Topic: Gender, Feminism, and Media
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4286423662