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Snarking to Repair: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of r/FundieSnarkUncensored
Snarking to Repair: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of r/FundieSnarkUncensored
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151129
- ISBN
- 9798382395968
- DDC
- 305
- 저자명
- Lawson, Vanessa.
- 서명/저자
- Snarking to Repair: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of r/FundieSnarkUncensored
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Michigan State University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 124 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: DeVoss, Danielle Nicole.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation examines how participants in one anonymous online forum, r/FundieSnarkUncensored, reversed a trend of bullying and targeted hate by reinventing their community as one based in storytelling. In this study, I draw on a feminist and cultural rhetorics methodology to advance a more comprehensive understanding of storytelling's role in promoting prosocial online behavior. To do so, I use digital feminist research methods, including participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and computational topic modeling. On a broad scale, my findings indicate potential strategies for more humane communication, even on contentious topics and within online spaces with neutral-to-hostile architectures. Specifically, r/FundieSnarkUncensored's turn to story-based snark precipitated changes in community moderation practices, including a form of quasi-mentorship for new volunteer moderators and an iterative process for developing community rules that both discourage harmful behaviors and incentivize positive behaviors through conversations with non-moderator community members. These changes in moderation style shifted the window of acceptable discursive practices within the subreddit and were amplified by Reddit's sorting algorithms, pushing the forum to continue to create nuanced, relational content. As such, members who joined the forum with a range of orientations towards snark and towards the fundamentalists upon whom the community snarks are engaged in a form of communal education. Overall, members demonstrate the development of a complex form of rhetorical empathy through their engagement in r/FundieSnarkUncensored. This rhetorical empathy reshapes their understanding of what snark can and should do and what it means to be a snarker in this particular online space. With this dissertation, I contribute to understandings of feminist or proto-feminist rhetorical practices in online communities, with specific attention to storytelling's role in de-escalating online aggression. I also contribute to the scope of feminist rhetorical research practices by adopting a cultural rhetorics approach and employing both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies
- 일반주제명
- Web studies
- 일반주제명
- Rhetoric
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 키워드
- Feminism
- 키워드
- 기타저자
- Michigan State University Rhetoric and Writing - Doctor of Philosophy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2024.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation examines how participants in one anonymous online forum, r/FundieSnarkUncensored, reversed a trend of bullying and targeted hate by reinventing their community as one based in storytelling. In this study, I draw on a feminist and cultural rhetorics methodology to advance a more comprehensive understanding of storytelling's role in promoting prosocial online behavior. To do so, I use digital feminist research methods, including participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and computational topic modeling. On a broad scale, my findings indicate potential strategies for more humane communication, even on contentious topics and within online spaces with neutral-to-hostile architectures. Specifically, r/FundieSnarkUncensored's turn to story-based snark precipitated changes in community moderation practices, including a form of quasi-mentorship for new volunteer moderators and an iterative process for developing community rules that both discourage harmful behaviors and incentivize positive behaviors through conversations with non-moderator community members. These changes in moderation style shifted the window of acceptable discursive practices within the subreddit and were amplified by Reddit's sorting algorithms, pushing the forum to continue to create nuanced, relational content. As such, members who joined the forum with a range of orientations towards snark and towards the fundamentalists upon whom the community snarks are engaged in a form of communal education. Overall, members demonstrate the development of a complex form of rhetorical empathy through their engagement in r/FundieSnarkUncensored. This rhetorical empathy reshapes their understanding of what snark can and should do and what it means to be a snarker in this particular online space. With this dissertation, I contribute to understandings of feminist or proto-feminist rhetorical practices in online communities, with specific attention to storytelling's role in de-escalating online aggression. I also contribute to the scope of feminist rhetorical research practices by adopting a cultural rhetorics approach and employing both quantitative and qualitative methods.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0128.
■650 4▼aGender studies
■650 4▼aWeb studies
■650 4▼aRhetoric
■650 4▼aWomens studies
■653 ▼aDigital rhetorics
■653 ▼aFeminism
■653 ▼aReddit
■653 ▼aCultural rhetorics
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17160875▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


