Essays about: "Forum"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 396 essays containing the word Forum.

1. 16. “If you’re on this sub, you’re on every watchlist possible.” An open-source investigation into the gamification of terrorism on Reddit’s user-run forum r/unexpectedjihad

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Agnieszka Ewa Gryz; [2023]
   Keywords : Gamification; Terrorism; Extremism; Jihad; Reddit; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study investigates the emerging phenomenon of gamification of terrorism, understood as the exploitation of video games mechanics and aesthetics to radicalize, proliferate propaganda and produce terror. Through an open-source ethnographic exploration of the “r/unexpectedjihad” community on Reddit, it attempts to answer how and to what extent violent jihadi sympathizers are gamifying terror in a digital setting. READ MORE

3. 17. “If Men Acted Like Women Do, There Would Be Riots in the Streets” : Personalized and Collective Action Framing in the Incelopshere

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Ebba Wallin Eriksson; [2023]
   Keywords : Incels; Online movement; Contentious action networks; Frame analysis; Connective action; Antifeminism;

   Abstract : In recent years, several high-profile acts of violence linked to the virtual incelosphere have sparked public concern and scholarly interest. Yet, scant attention has been paid to whether these perpetrators can be understood as lone-wolf attackers or as members of a collective. READ MORE

4. 18. Incels views on crime : A study about how users on an incel forum justify their views on sexual and violent crime

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Elin Alexandroff; Maya Burman; [2023]
   Keywords : Incels; Attitudes; Crime; Violence; Techniques of Neutralization.; Incels; Attityder; Brott; Våld; Neutralisationstekniker.;

   Abstract : Through a netnographic qualitative research, an incel forum is analyzed in this study using a thematic analysis to investigate users on the incel forum and their views on sexual and violent crime. By using Sykes and Matza's (1957) techniques of neutralization, this study shows how the users on the forum may justify their positive views on violent and sexual crime. READ MORE

5. 19. Beyond the music : Exploring the Dynamics of National and European Identity in the Eurovision Song Contest

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

   Author : Maja Ahlberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Eurovision Song Contest ESC ; European identity; national identity; popular culture; nation-building; Imagineering; constructivism; imagined communities; soft power;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how member nations manage their national identities within the supranational context of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) and the significance of the ESC in creating a shared European identity. Patterns of identification and attitudes relating to culture, ethnicity/nationality, religion/faith, and gender/sex are discovered by studying the winning submissions from 1998 to 2022 through content analysis and discourse analysis. READ MORE

6. 20. Heritage Matters : A Study of Social Mobility Patterns Among First and Second-Generation Immigrants in Europe

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

   Author : Linnea Stevander; [2023]
   Keywords : Social Mobility; Immigration; Social Mobility Index; International Socio-Economic Index ISEI ; European Social Survey ESS ;

   Abstract : This thesis examined how the association between immigrants’ occupational origin and destination varies in 33 European countries, depending on the opportunities for social mobility in the origin country. For absolute occupational mobility, the result from an LPM regression showed that first-generation female immigrants had an increased probability of upward mobility when the origin country offered more opportunities for social mobility. READ MORE