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Camacho Fernandez, DavidAuthorD\'Antonio Maceiras, Sergio AlejandroAuthorPanizo Lledot, AngelAuthorTorregrosa J, Panizo-Lledot á, D’antonio-Maceiras S, Camacho DCorresponding Author

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December 11, 2023
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Measuring the Relationship Between the Use of Typical Manosphere Discourse and the Engagement of a User with the Pick-Up Artist Community

Publicated to: Syntactic ASP Forgetting with Forks. 14404 LNCS 303-310 - 2023-01-01 14404 LNCS(), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48232-8_28

Authors:

Torregrosa J; Panizo-LLedot Á; D’Antonio-Maceiras S; Camacho D
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Affiliations

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author

Abstract

The Manosphere movement and its subgroups have garnered the attention of researchers seeking deeper insights into their dynamics. This study specifically focuses on a particular subgroup within the Manosphere called Pick Up Artists (PUAs). PUAs concentrate on teaching heterosexual men sexual seduction techniques to attract women, often promoting a clear objectifying and sexist perspective. The primary goal of this research is to explore whether users who engage more with the PUA community tend to adopt the typical Manosphere discourse. To achieve this objective, we aim to measure the relationship between linguistic features and the number of relevant Pick-Up Artist accounts followed by a user. Four linguistic features were considered: sexist language, misogyny, use of slang, and Manosphere topics. To assess these linguistic features, we employ relevant state-of-the-art tools, including various classifiers to identify misogynistic and sexist content, topic extraction techniques like BERTopic, and dictionaries containing typical Manosphere slang. The results of our analysis indicate a moderate correlation between the presence of misogynistic/sexist content and the number of accounts followed. However, we did not find a similar correlation with the other variables. This could indicate that the amount of relevant accounts followed does not influence the discourse of an account. Nevertheless, further research is necessary to gain a better understanding of the typical discourse within the PUAs subculture of the Manosphere as the tools used in this study do not seem to clearly identify the expected discourse.
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Keywords

Discourse analysisManosphereNatural language processingPick-up artistSocial platforms

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Syntactic ASP Forgetting with Forks due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Computer Science (Miscellaneous).

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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-03-30:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 6.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 6 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (TORREGROSA LOPEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been TORREGROSA LOPEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER.

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