Sian Brooke
DPhil Student, Oxford Internet Institute
About
Siân Brooke is a DPhil student at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research interests are largely within sociology and gender. She researches the construction of gendered identity on the pseudonymous web: in particular, the formation and maintenance of troll and hacktivist identities and the operation of gender politics in online forums.
Expertise
- Gender
- Internet trolls and trolling
- Hacking
- Anonymity online
- Internet memes
- Social media and social networking
- Masculinity and femininity
- Feminism