Understanding Inceldom : an adapted framework for analyzing the Incel community within an online radicalization approach
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- Renée Pattyn (UGent)
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- The ‘involuntary celibates’, or men who have been unable to find romantic or sexual relationships with women despite wanting to, have congregated in the online incel community. Though initially supportive in nature, the community has become a hotbed for (violent) online misogyny. My ongoing virtual ethnographic research focuses on the nature of the incel community and its members, and how the community plays a role in online misogynistic radicalization. To this end, this contribution applies Bayerl et al.’s Radicalisation-Factor Model and its four interlinked factors—the individual, the environment, the radical groups and ideology, and technologies—to the incel community. This adjusted framework find its basis in existing insights from domains such as (online) radicalization, social psychology, scholarship of gender, masculinity and misogyny, and is further inspired by ongoing non-participatory observations on incel forums. By approaching the incel phenomenon from different perspectives, this framework has the aim of providing a holistic understanding of the incel community as well as highlighting the importance of the interplay of various individual, ideological, contextual and technological features in the process of online radicalization.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J8F8EXW142QMNZSCQQNX8JNP
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- Pattyn, Renée. “Understanding Inceldom : An Adapted Framework for Analyzing the Incel Community within an Online Radicalization Approach.” EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts, 2024, pp. 71–71.
- APA
- Pattyn, R. (2024). Understanding Inceldom : an adapted framework for analyzing the Incel community within an online radicalization approach. EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts, 71–71.
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- Pattyn, Renée. 2024. “Understanding Inceldom : An Adapted Framework for Analyzing the Incel Community within an Online Radicalization Approach.” In EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts, 71–71.
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- Pattyn, Renée. 2024. “Understanding Inceldom : An Adapted Framework for Analyzing the Incel Community within an Online Radicalization Approach.” In EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts, 71–71.
- Vancouver
- 1.Pattyn R. Understanding Inceldom : an adapted framework for analyzing the Incel community within an online radicalization approach. In: EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts. 2024. p. 71–71.
- IEEE
- [1]R. Pattyn, “Understanding Inceldom : an adapted framework for analyzing the Incel community within an online radicalization approach,” in EUROCRIM 2024, 24th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Book of Abstracts, Bucharest, Romania, 2024, pp. 71–71.
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language = {{eng}},
location = {{Bucharest, Romania}},
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title = {{Understanding Inceldom : an adapted framework for analyzing the Incel community within an online radicalization approach}},
year = {{2024}},
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