“Happy to provide the knives”: Governmentality and threats of violence via social media in the case of Roosh V and Return of Kings

“Happy to provide the knives”: Governmentality and threats of violence via social media in the case of Roosh V and Return of Kings

This paper uses the online threats of violence to Roosh V and Return of Kings — blogs relating to pick-up artist culture and “neo-masculinity” — as a case study to examine the ways in which people use social media as a technology of the self. In early 2016, groups mobilized online using the Facebook...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bender, Stuart
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Illinois 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/50489

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