Title:	Language in Echo Chambers: How Metaphors Intensify Affective Phenomena
Authors:	Watzlawek, Rebecca
Abstract:	To poignantly demonstrate the effect of metaphors on epistemic as well as affective mechanisms of whole groups, I will look at two echo chambers that have formed within the virtual realm, namely ProAna (pro-anorexia) worlds and the Incel (involuntary celibates) community. Echo chambers such as these exert a particularly heightened use of metaphors as well as a very specialized and adapted vocabulary tailored to the respective needs, which makes them a fruitful space to examine the workings of highly expressive metaphors. In this thesis I outline and defend the basis for the claim that metaphors, used in the specific environment of echo chambers, are used as tools which corroborate, maintain, and reinforce the epistemic as well as affective scaffold that is already in place.
Citations:	Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science (PICS), Volume 2023, Number 2
URL:	https://doi.org/10.48693/423 https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-202311069985
Subject Keywords:	Echo Chambers; Affectivity; Metaphors; Online Communication; Anorexia; Involuntary Celibates
Issue Date:	6-Nov-2023
License name:	Attribution 3.0 Germany
License url:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
Type of publication:	Buch [Book]
Appears in Collections:	PICS - Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science

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