README.md

The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web

This repo contains the data and the analysis done in the paper "The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web".

@article{ribeiro2021evolution,
    title={The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web},
    author={Ribeiro, Manoel Horta and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, 
            Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and 
            Long, Summer and Greenberg, Stephanie and Zannettou, Savvas},
    booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference 
                  on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'21)}},
    year={2021}
}

Analyses were done in Jupyter notebooks that are in the /notebooks/ folder:

• activity_and_popularity.ipynbreproduces Figure 1 of the paper;
• users_intersection.ipynb reproduces Figure 2 of the paper;
• users_migration.ipynb reproduces Figure 3 of the paper;
• toxicity_and_misoginy.ipynb reproduces Figure 4 of the paper;

Data

Data description stuff can be found in /data/.