What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab

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dc.contributor.advisorWood, Lesley Julia
dc.contributor.authorFraser, Xylia Nichole
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-03T14:08:37Z
dc.date.available2022-03-03T14:08:37Z
dc.date.copyright2021-12
dc.date.issued2022-03-03
dc.date.updated2022-03-03T14:08:37Z
dc.degree.disciplineSociology
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractInformed by Tilly's (2005) and Tilly and Tarrow's (2007) work on the use of storytelling as a tool for the (re)construction of collective identities and boundary formation, Alexander's (2006) work on the civil sphere and its civil/anti-civil symbolic codes and discourses of liberty and repression, and Georgakopoulou's (2013) concept of 'small stories,' I conducted a narrative analysis focused on the 'small stores' that Gab users (re)told to produce an understanding of alt-right pillars of identity. In this paper, I detail many 'small stories' about political correctness, censorship, affirmative action, 'invasions,' and the dissolution of the traditional white, nuclear family that transform into one big story of the so-called '(((communists')))' plot to manufacture a 'white genocide.'
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39139
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSociolinguistics
dc.subject.keywordsFar-right
dc.subject.keywordsAlt-right
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-Semitism
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-Semitic
dc.subject.keywordsConspiracy theories
dc.subject.keywordsSocial network
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative analysis
dc.subject.keywordsRelational realist
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-white discrimination
dc.subject.keywordsWhite victimhood
dc.subject.keywordsWhite genocide
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican values
dc.subject.keywordsCivil sphere
dc.subject.keywordsCivil society
dc.subject.keywordsSmall stories
dc.subject.keywordsCharles Tilly
dc.subject.keywordsJeffrey Alexander
dc.subject.keywordsAlexandra Georgakopoulou
dc.titleWhat are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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