Listen "Sigma Male, or How Incel Terms Went Mainstream"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode Salome Berdzenishvili, from the Institute of Network Cultures, and Sjef van Beers, from The Hmm, talk to Dr. Daniël de Zeeuw, from the University of Amsterdam’s department of Mediastudies, about how terms originally associated with incel and femcel communities seem to have reached the mainstream.
Mentioned in this episode:
“‘Teh Internet is Serious Business’: On the Deep Vernacular Web Imaginary and its Discontents“
Based and confused: Tracing the political connotations of a memetic phrase across the web
Find The Hmm at:
thehmm.nl
link in bio
Find Daniël at:
bluesky
uva.nl
Thinking Face Emoji is a podcast by The Hmm, in collaboration with The Institute of Network Cultures, and financially supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.
Jingle and sound design by Jochem van der Hoek.
Editing by Salome Berdzenishvili.
Cover art by Aspirin.
Mentioned in this episode:
“‘Teh Internet is Serious Business’: On the Deep Vernacular Web Imaginary and its Discontents“
Based and confused: Tracing the political connotations of a memetic phrase across the web
Find The Hmm at:
thehmm.nl
link in bio
Find Daniël at:
bluesky
uva.nl
Thinking Face Emoji is a podcast by The Hmm, in collaboration with The Institute of Network Cultures, and financially supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.
Jingle and sound design by Jochem van der Hoek.
Editing by Salome Berdzenishvili.
Cover art by Aspirin.
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