期刊名称：Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
印刷版ISSN：1438-5627
出版年度：2021
卷号：22
期号：2
DOI：10.17169/fqs-22.2.3556
语种：English
出版社：Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
摘要：In this article, we present the classic grounded theory of remote female fixation, which provides new knowledge on the illegal sharing of sexualized images of young girls in networked communities on the internet. This sharing occurs without consent and usually without the girls even knowing about it. In the study, we identified the main concern and action strategies of the anonymous users of a large online forum for the sharing of nude images. The data were gathered from 20 different online comment sections of the Norwegian branch of a global, anonymous community with a reputation for extensive sharing of nude images of young women. By carefully analyzing the data, we found that the forum's users had an ongoing need to master their own female fixations, which they satisfied through the process of remote female fixation. In this process, forum users engaged in the following four interdependent strategies: continuous competition, loyalty-based inclusion, irregular rewarding, and tactical negotiation. By identifying the forum users' shared concern, this theory may help explain the increasing presence of sexual abuse in digital environments.
关键词：grounded theory methodology;networked community;non-consensual nude image sharing;digital sexual abuse;gameplay;patterns of behavior;digital media
