TY - GEN
T1 - Beyond Fish and Bicycles
T2 - 15th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2023, co-located with The Web Conference
AU - Balci, Utkucan
AU - Ling, Chen
AU - De Cristofaro, Emiliano
AU - Squire, Megan
AU - Stringhini, Gianluca
AU - Blackburn, Jeremy
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 ACM.
PY - 2023/4/30
Y1 - 2023/4/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85159193273
U2 - 10.1145/3578503.3583618
DO - 10.1145/3578503.3583618
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 43
EP - 54
BT - WebSci 2023 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 April 2023 through 1 May 2023
ER -