Variations on a Theme?: comparing 4chan, 8kun, and Other chans’ Far-Right "/pol" Boards
Online forums such as 4chan and 8chan have grown in notoriety following a number of high-profile attacks conducted in 2019 by right-wing extremists who used their "/pol" boards (dedicated to "politically incorrect" discussions). Despite growing academic interest in these online s...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Perspectives on terrorism
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-80 |
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| Summary: | Online forums such as 4chan and 8chan have grown in notoriety following a number of high-profile attacks conducted in 2019 by right-wing extremists who used their "/pol" boards (dedicated to "politically incorrect" discussions). Despite growing academic interest in these online spaces, little is still known about them; in particular, their similarities and differences remain to be teased out, and their respective roles in fostering a certain farright subculture need to be specified. This article therefore directly compares the content and discussion pace of six different/pol boards of "chan" forums, including some that exist solely on the dark web. We find that while these boards constitute together a particular subculture, differences in terms of both rate of traffic and content demonstrate the fragmentation of this subculture. Specifically, we show that the different/pol boards can be grouped into a three-tiered architecture based upon both at once how popular they are and how extreme their content is. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 78-80 |
| Physical Description: | Diagramme |
| ISSN: | 2334-3745 |