>>88967The research is about the perceived affordances/the benefits/the good of imageboards, in particular for women. Most press on imageboards focuses on 4chan and its alt-right turn, racist/xenophobic speech etc. Yet these places have millions of users each month, and I doubt that people exclusively use imageboards for radicalisation and racism. In that case, why would spaces like /ck/ or /n/ exist? But we don't hear about why people use the spaces, rather we get academic studies of the rhetoric from the outside, by outsiders; I think I have yet to see a study that actually engages with users and why they like the platforms. Essentially, this is what I'm trying to do.
Also of course the internet increasingly is a less and less private space; the use of social media is normalised to a point where if you do not have it, it makes you strange. Our data is tracked in myriad of ways online that we don't understand and used to cater ads and content to us. To what extent is the anonymous web a relief from this stauts quo? Is it worth having around nowadays and why?
You can expect me to try and pose questions like this in an interview of about an hour in length. Ideally I would love voice call because you just get more out of that interaction between 'researcher' and interviewee.
>>88971Thank you. Out of interest, what length of time would you be willing to spare? Would your opinion change if it were texting-based rather than voice call?
