Using a combination of computational and qualitative content analysis, my research focuses on ideological cross-pollination between the online manosphere and the alt-right, exploring thematic similarities in user-generated discourse on extremist platforms. In addition to hypothesising the implications of these findings regarding the nature of the on and offline self – and how these factor into supremacist radicalisation – I also aim to provide empirical support for the conceptual treatment of these loosely connected networks of interest groups as biotopes forming self-sustaining and ever-evolving virtual supremacist ecosystems that, while somewhat ideologically distinct, overlap and influence one another as in the natural environment.
Publications
- (Manuscript Accepted) Ging, D., Baele, S., Brace, L., Long, S., and Murphy, S. Aesthetics of Misogyny and the Repulsive Gaze: Worldview, Affect, and Ideology in the Visual Landscape of the Incelosphere. New Media and Society.
- Jasny, L., Long, S., Minihane, J. and Wu, J., 2022. How to Approach Sampling for Social Network Analysis: Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube. [How-to Guide]. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529610840.