"Culture of Hate“ on Social Networking Portals as an Disturbing of Tabuization Cover Image

Kultura nienawiści na portalach społecznościowych jako zaburzenie tabuizacji
"Culture of Hate“ on Social Networking Portals as an Disturbing of Tabuization

Author(s): Rafał Ilnicki
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Communication, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Social Informatics, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; taboo; social media; hate; gamer‐parastie; 4chan;

Summary/Abstract: This article shows how in social portals is establishing culture of hate. This concepts is explicated by connecting it with processes of taboo destruction. Author states that is the main reason of existence such culture, because every attack on established values in culture produces affective responses from users that are o ended by it. This lead to creation of specific model of user that takes form of gamer‐parastie, which gains satisfaction from disturbing taboos. There is also strong emphasis on mechanism of such an culture production, which leads to establishing relatively strong connections between users and the systems of data transmission that forms dispositifs of hate. In the end there is shown how it is possible to by destructing taboos there are new taboos established.

  • Issue Year: 34/2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 158-167
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish