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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-11-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120969912 |