User:Pleun/grad/ProposalProject

What do you want to make?

I want to create a dynamic dictionary of the language of the right side of the online culture wars, namely of the Alt Right and the Manosphere. For now focussing on two key forums, one on 4chan and one on Reddit: /pol/ and reddit/theredpill. When I achieve this dynamic dictionary I want to look for ways to open up discussion, maybe by leaving physical/public traces, that would function to create some friction or different sounds in the online echo chambers.

How do you plan to make it?

I plan to use text scraping to scrape the forum and then start to filter out content so I would be left with non-dictionary words. Then I also want to look at which words, nouns/adjectives are used most.

What is your timetable?

Why do you want to make it?

Contemporary fascism, misogyny, and extreme right ideology is created online in forums collaboratively. Their ideology is framed within terms and memes.

- How the right mobalises

Hard to escape dominance of frames, even if your critical your flooded

- How are claims contextualized - Prevents critical thought, rational thought: do memes do something similar than the fascist images,

- Most powerful influence: single words, ideoms, and sentence structures

- Words shape reality - Use of memes to frame reality

Who can help you and how?

Relation to previous practice

How does your research connect to previous projects you have done? Here you can use the descriptions you made during the Methods seminar or make new descriptions. Your Text on Method will also be useful in completing this section.

Relation to a larger context

Meaning practices or ideas that go beyond the scope of your personal work. Write briefly about other projects or theoretical material which share an affinity with your project. For example, if you are researching urban interventions, you might want to research about Situationist approaches to psychogeography, urban tactical media and activist strategies of reclaiming the streets. Or, if you want to explore the way data is tracked, you might touch upon the politics of data mining by referencing concerns laid out by the Electronic Frontier or highlight theoretical questions raised by Wendy Chun or others. (Keep in mind that we are *not* expecting well formulated conclusions or persuasive arguments in the proposal phase. At this juncture, it's simply about showing an awareness of a broader context, which you will later build upon as your research progresses.)