Going Overboard: How Ironic Group Style Becomes Political on an Anonymous Imageboard

Anonymous online groups such as imageboards have increasing cultural influence. Recently, they have been connected with far-right political movements. This mixed-methods study investigates politics on Overboard, a Finnish imageboard. We use a convolutional neural network to learn linguistic features...

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Main Authors: Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, Veikko Eranti, Sam Hardwick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120969912