TY - GEN
T1 - Debunking the #Manosphere
T2 - 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021
AU - Santos, Sofia José
AU - Amaral, Inês
AU - Simões, Rita Basílio
AU - Brites, Maria José
N1 - UIDB/05021/2020
UIDP/05021/2020
PTDC/COM-CSS/31740/2017
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Online and offline realms are not detached one from the other but are rather convergent and mutually reinforcing. Over the past decade, as the so-called “digital era” emerged and expanded, expressions of misogynist beliefs started to burgeon within the online realm. On par with male misogynist individualised agency, there has also been a growth of what has been labelled the manosphere. Although mainly revolving around gender identities and roles, the manosphere is profoundly tied to conservative imaginaries of race, nationality, sexuality, religion and, we argue, age. Taking into account the feminist argument the personal is political, that age and gender are intersecting categories, and that the digital is a central realm in collective and connective action, this paper draws an exploratory study on how patriarchy and ageism inform the politics of the #manosphere, exploring at the same time how the digital realm makes this convergence and result prolific concerning manosphere’s agenda and mobilisation.
AB - Online and offline realms are not detached one from the other but are rather convergent and mutually reinforcing. Over the past decade, as the so-called “digital era” emerged and expanded, expressions of misogynist beliefs started to burgeon within the online realm. On par with male misogynist individualised agency, there has also been a growth of what has been labelled the manosphere. Although mainly revolving around gender identities and roles, the manosphere is profoundly tied to conservative imaginaries of race, nationality, sexuality, religion and, we argue, age. Taking into account the feminist argument the personal is political, that age and gender are intersecting categories, and that the digital is a central realm in collective and connective action, this paper draws an exploratory study on how patriarchy and ageism inform the politics of the #manosphere, exploring at the same time how the digital realm makes this convergence and result prolific concerning manosphere’s agenda and mobilisation.
KW - Age
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Masculinities
KW - Technology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112210930&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_31
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_31
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112210930
SN - 9783030781071
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 420
EP - 429
BT - Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population
A2 - Gao, Qin
A2 - Zhou, Jia
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
Y2 - 24 July 2021 through 29 July 2021
ER -