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'Getting by' on 4chan: Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace

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'Getting by' on 4chan: Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace. / Fathallah, Judith.
In: First Monday, Vol. 26, No. 6, 7, 07.06.2021.

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Fathallah, J 2021, ''Getting by' on 4chan: Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace', First Monday, vol. 26, no. 6, 7. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i7.10449

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Fathallah, J. (2021). 'Getting by' on 4chan: Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace. First Monday, 26(6), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i7.10449

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Fathallah J. 'Getting by' on 4chan: Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace. First Monday. 2021 Jun 7;26(6):7. Epub 2021 Jun 1. doi: 10.5210/fm.v26i7.10449

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Fathallah, Judith. / 'Getting by' on 4chan : Feminine self presentation and capital-claiming in antifeminist webspace. In: First Monday. 2021 ; Vol. 26, No. 6.

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abstract = "The internet imageboard 4chan is often believed to be a hub of fascism, white supremacism, and violent misogyny. The popular press associates 4chan with {\textquoteleft}incels{\textquoteright} (involuntarily celibate men), using the site to vent their rage at women. Yet a significant minority of posters on the site are female, and/or present themselves as such. These posters use various strategies to negotiate a space for identity-construction and to build subcultural capital within an antifeminist webspace, a striking development in what Amy Shields Dobson calls the process of {\textquoteleft}getting by{\textquoteright} in postfeminist neoliberal culture. By quantifying and analysing these strategies, whilst restraining the rush to ethical judgement typical to discussion of 4chan, this study aims to resituate 4chan{\textquoteright}s feminine users from passive objects of violence to active participants in the site{\textquoteright}s culture and influence. ",
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