'Come on in the Water's Fine'
Research Question
How does 4Chan play a role in 'incubating the Alt-Right' through 'redpilling'...
Stake
Personal Stake
- A Part of the Targeted Group
- Online Presence
- Been on Similar Websites
Audience
- Young Adults on the Internet
- Commonly Straight White Males
Question for Audience
Question?
... If you fit into the broader audience, in what ways have you experienced alt-right or any other form of similar extremist views?
Article
Article and Authors
" The Challenges of Studying 4Chan and the Alt-Right: 'Come on in the Water's Fine' "
Authors:
Thomas Colley and Martin Moore
Purpose + Audience
- Understanding Internet Lingo
- Difficulties When Researching Websites like 4Chan
- Analyses how Internet Communities React to being Researched
Purpose
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Audience
Authors
Thomas Colley:
- Propaganda, War, and Strategic Communication
- Public Reaction to Persuasion
Martin Moore:
- Founder of a Charity
- Decades Researching Similar Areas to Colley
Project + Key Terms
Project
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Key Terms
- Normilization/Desensitize
- Superiority
- Communal Identity
- Interenets Id
- Incubator
- Redpilling
Plan for Paper
Plan
- Mostly Fowarding
- Argue the other side... 'Bluepilled'
- Express Issues with Communal Identities + Group Mentality
- Removes Individuality
- How Normilization of ideas like White Surpremacy affects users
- Want Audience to Understand how 4Chan's extremist groups subconciously recruit new members
Visual Metaphor
Visual
Metaphor
Charlie Conspiracy
For my visual metaphor I went with a sort of conspiracy/detective theme to illustrate the digging and detective work that has to be done in order to get information from a source like 4Chan.