#online-communities

#online-communities

Personalized persuasion, while often appealing, can become concerning when deep tailoring is involved, as it utilizes core psychological beliefs and identities to influence opinions.

Our findings suggest that user activity on r/antiwork significantly evolved, showing disconnects among subscriber growth and actual engagement, particularly post-mainstream media events.

Tate's repeated demeaning and violent statements about women and his mocking of the seriousness of sexual assault are usually brushed aside by his followers.

Joining dedicated online platforms like UX.stackexchange.com can offer valuable advice and insights while also helping you connect with other UX professionals globally.

"The novelty of a website devoted to shock and gore, and the rebelliousness inherent in it, dies when your opinions become the official policy of the world's five or so richest people and the government of the United States."

In examining the rise of online extremism, this paper addresses a notable gap in research by focusing on left-wing extremist communities, specifically ‘tankies’, emphasizing their ideologies and interactions.

The Perspective API analysis illustrates that tankies exhibit significantly higher toxicity levels compared to other far-left communities, underscoring distinct behavioral patterns within this political spectrum.

The tragic Netflix drama 'Adolescence' highlights the issues of toxic masculinity and the alarming influence of the online manosphere on young men.

The first five years I managed to produce a basic system that achieved enough to scrap the desktop program and all the manual processes.

In a paper published in Feminist Media Studies earlier this year, Loughborough University professor Jilly Kay traced so-called femosphere online communities back to 2018 in a defensive reaction against the manosphere, the misogynistic communities that vary from anti-feminism to more explicit, violent rhetoric towards women. "In the femosphere, the red pill is often reframed as a 'pink pill' philosophy to signal a distinctively female-centric ethos," Kay wrote in her paper.

"It's a way to have conversations about complicated issues, like national politics, but in context with people I actually know and care about," Kramer tells me.

Extreme overvalued beliefs (EOBs) are a key driver of most school and mass shootings, as opposed to traditional notions of delusions. They originate from grievances and become dangerously reinforced in online communities, creating an echo chamber for these ideas.