Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on Reddit

Jai Aggarwal; Suzanne Stevenson

EMNLP 2024main0 citations

Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on Reddit

Abstract

Hate speech groups (HSGs) may negatively influence online platforms through their distinctive language, which may affect the tone and topics of other spaces if spread beyond the HSGs. We explore the linguistic style of the Manosphere, a misogynistic HSG, on Reddit. We find that Manospheric authors have a distinct linguistic style using not only uncivil language, but a greater focus on gendered topics, which are retained when posting in other communities. Thus, potentially harmful aspects of Manospheric style carry over into posts on non-Manospheric subreddits, motivating future work to explore how this stylistic spillover may negatively influence community health.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{aggarwal-stevenson-2024-style,
    title = "Style-Shifting Behaviour of the Manosphere on {R}eddit",
    author = "Aggarwal, Jai  and
      Stevenson, Suzanne",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1226/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1226",
    pages = "21976--21989"
}