Models of Masculinity Formation in Men’s Online Communities

Student: Orson Morrigan

Educational Programme: Complex Social Analysis (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

The men's rights movement — masculinism — is developing in the online at the present time in Russia. It is caused by the increasing relevance of the feminist agenda, so masculinism is an attempt to understand gender issues for men. This movement is represented by various directions, which may contain divergent ideas about gender. Inside online male communities, the male gender is problematized, traditional masculinity models are rethought and new ones are constructed. The purpose of the study is to identify alternative models of masculinity that are formed by discourses of male online communities in the social network VK.com. To achieve that goal, we used discourse analysis methods.

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