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- 16. 4. 2025
Selenia Anastasi: »Misogyny beyond borders. Studying Extremist Discourses using Cross-Linguistics CADS«
Zgodovina na Špici / History on the Edge
You are kindly invited to the new event of the History on the Edge series, which will take place on Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 13:00, at the INZ premises or at the ZOOM link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378
The lecture will be given by Selenia Anastasi, and the title of the lecture is “Misogyny beyond borders. Studying Extremist Discourses using Cross-Linguistics CADS”. The lecture will be held in English.
Misogyny beyond borders. Studying Extremist Discourses using Cross-Linguistics CADS
The aim of this presentation is to show the methodologies I employed to conduct the first comparative study of discourses within the two main Incel communities, the Italian Forum dei Brutti (FDB) and the English-speaking incels.is. While the Anglophone manosphere has been extensively analysed from a discourse analysis perspective, the Italian community remains largely underexplored, particularly through cross-linguistics corpus-assisted discourse studies.
To address these complex issues, I triangulate methodological approach combining corpus linguistic techniques (such as keyword analysis, collocation analysis, and concordance analysis) and Digital Humanities approaches like distant reading (topic modelling). Finally, I incorporate qualitative methods to analyse user discursive patterns, comparing them at both a cross-cultural level (between the Anglophone and Italian communities) and a gendered level (within the Italian community, comparing male and female user discourses).
Thus, the overarching research questions I seek to address can be summarised as follows:
• How do users in the two communities, Anglophone and Italian, construct and negotiate their Incel identity?
• Are there significant differences in how Anglophone and Italian communities discursively articulate gender hegemony?
To interpret the findings, Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis is integrated and informed by recent conceptualisations of online misogyny.
