RESOURCES
A collection of scholarly papers, articles, vocabulary and mental health resources to help us fully understand the content of the play.
Dramaturg’s Guide to Online Lingo
Emojis: A digital icon used to express an emotion, opinion, idea, etc.
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Vocabulary:
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Snapchat - Mobile app used to share photos, videos and messages.
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Snap/Snapping - The action of sending a photo, video or message or Snapchat.
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Streak - The count of how many total consecutive days two individuals have sent one another pictures on Snapchat.
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Instagram/Insta - Social network where one can post photos and send messages.
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TikTok - Mobile app where users make and post videos featuring music and/or sounds.
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Facebook - One of the first social networks used to share photos and messages.
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DM - Acronym for Direct Messaging, when one sends a message on a social media app.
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GIF - Acronym for Graphics Interchange Format, a moving image sent over text.
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Message Board - Page on a website where users can post comments as well as read and reply to other user’s comments.
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Subtopic - Topic that is branches off of a larger subject.
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Cancelled - When an individual is rejected and/or dismissed.
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Incel - Online community of men who struggle to attain sexual contact with women and are therefore hostile towards them. They believe in the supremacy of men and the reality of a female-dominated sexual marketplace.
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Inchan - A fictional website based on the internet forum formerly known as 8chan, a popular gathering place for incels.
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An Exploration of the Involuntary Celibate (Incel) Subculture Online
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Incels, a portmanteau of the term involuntary celibates, operate in online communities to discuss difficulties in attaining sexual relationships. Past reports have found that multiple elements of the incel culture are misogynistic and favorable towards violence. Further, several violent incidents have been linked to this community, which suggests that incel communities may resemble other ideologically motivated extremist groups. The current study employed an inductive qualitative analysis of over 8,000 posts made in two online incel communities to identify the norms, values, and beliefs of these groups from a subcultural perspective. Analyses found that the incel community was structured around five interrelated normative orders: the sexual market, women as naturally evil, legitimizing masculinity, male oppression, and violence. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of extremism and the role of the internet in radicalization to violence are considered in depth.
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The “incel” phenomenon began after 2010 when like-minded young – mostly straight white – men started to share similar thoughts and worldviews on certain digital platforms and online forums leading to an exclusive community. The phenomenon is characterized by misogynism, racism and homophobia. The most extreme forms of the phenomenon have led to violent hate crimes. The aim of this paper is to understand this phenomenon and analyze it by applying the echo chamber theory.
8chan, a Twitter-Fossil: A post-digital genealogy of digital toxicity
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8chan: A Twitter-Fossil is a case study for the processes, which enable the amplification of toxic ideologies within the Internet. Through the construction of an artwork or a “social-media-fossil” concealed agencies, both human and more-thanhuman, are brought to light by recording and visualising the sedimentary traces left by a system of human, algorithmic and mineral interaction. This is a reflection on the “deep” entanglement between social and “natural” processes. Through materialising and analysing the archives – including textual data – of a creative data visualisation working with the Twitter API, key actors within a multi-layered narrative of digital toxicity are exposed.
No Grand Pronouncements Here...: Reflections on Cancel Culture and Digital Media Participation
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Although there are numerous prominent examples of social media misuse, these cases should not disproportionately characterize the scope or potential of digital media participation as a whole. Using cancel culture as an entry point, this essay discusses how digital practices often follow a trajectory of being initially embraced as empowering to being denounced as emblematic of digital ills. However, while platforms such as Twitter do have characteristics that militate against nuanced debate, scholars can productively direct attention to interactions in other digital spaces, particularly using methods that yield more qualitatively informative data. These spaces include message boards and comment threads, which foster more long-form engagement. It is also important to look beyond the major English-language platforms, both to account for platform-specific features and so that conditions of online discourse routine in many global contexts, such as negotiating censorship, are centrally theorized in digital media studies.