Abstract

4Chan remains a compelling yet insufficiently explored phenomenon of the modern Internet. Through the years, it has developed an infamy, especially concerning its /pol/ subboard, for being a belligerent and potentially extremist online community. The subboard has developed a user base composed predominantly of males who, almost completely anonymously, through a giant number of daily posts, discuss issues in some way connected to politics. This has resulted in one predominant discourse on women and their roles in the political world, one marked by description of a presumed all-encompassing and crippling inferiority. This paper seeks to illuminate this discourse by performing discourse analysis on a database of posts made by Serbian /pol/ users. The analysis is described in three closely connected sections. The first focuses on the explicit framing of women in political roles. The second and third sections describe the discourse as it pertains to the lack of fitness women allegedly show through impersonal social relations and as intimate partners, which together construct a basis and influential linkage as subboard users argue that they are unfit for politics as well.

摘要

4Chan 仍然是现代互联网的一个引人注目但尚未充分探索的现象。多年来，它已经臭名昭著，尤其是关于其 /pol/ 子板，因为它是一个好战且潜在的极端主义在线社区。该子板开发了一个主要由男性组成的用户群，他们几乎完全匿名，通过大量的日常帖子，以某种方式讨论与政治有关的问题。这导致了一种关于女性及其在政治世界中的角色的主要论述，其特点是描述了一种假定的无所不包和严重的自卑。本文试图通过对塞尔维亚语 /pol/ 用户发布的帖子数据库进行话语分析来阐明这一话语。分析在三个紧密相连的部分中进行了描述。第一个侧重于明确界定女性担任政治角色。第二部分和第三部分描述了该话语，因为它与据称通过非个人社会关系和亲密伙伴表现出的女性缺乏健康有关，这些关系共同构建了一个基础和有影响力的联系，因为子板用户认为她们也不适合政治。