Katherine Furl
Biographic Data
| ID | 316604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Furl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Furl |
| SIGNATURE | FURL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Dakota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7736-6973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Insta-Famous or Invisible: Social Media Use and Belonging at a Public Flagship University
Social media and US public universities hold as-yet-unrealized potential for equity. Both institutions, however, also serve as reminders of social inequality while normalizing relatively privileged lifestyles. Past scholarship highlights how symbolic capital, felt stigma, and self-inflicted symbolic violence can maintain inequality, yet their operation across interconnected digital and higher educational contexts remains under-analyzed. Through 5…
Parasocial paternalism and embodied advice: How cosmetic medicine interventions are marketed on TikTok
Occupational credentials connect to broader power relations, provide authority used to justify appearance-based inequalities, and are linked to the social contexts implicated in cosmetic medical procedures and other beauty interventions. Plastic surgeons, cosmetic dentists, and other medical professionals offering cosmetic procedures advertise to global audiences on digital platforms, where they compete with less prestigiously credentialed counte…
Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest
How do people evaluate social movement protest tactics? Theories covering public perceptions of protest emphasize that activists face a tactical dilemma, employing disruptive tactics to advance goals without alienating public support. Existing quantitative evidence on the perceived relationship between tactical disruptiveness and effectiveness, as well as how tactics are influenced by objective properties or subjective perceptions across social g…
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok
This article investigates the intersection of identity, power, and knowledge production on U.S. ConspiracyTok, a genre of TikTok videos promoting conspiracy theories ranging from harmless speculation to harmful disinformation. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of 202 highly viewed videos, we examine how identity markers such as race and gender shape who is empowered or undermined in conspiratorial narratives, and how creators construct and …
True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: Claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok
Paradoxical anonymity, power relations, and appearance policing on r/instagramreality
Appearances are unequally policed in gendered, racialized, and classist systems of power. Technological affordances, or the actions possible across different technological platforms, shape how these practices transpire online. Affordances can operate in gendered, racialized ways: the same platform capabilities can produce different use patterns depending on social contexts, uniquely reinforcing inequalities. I bridge a gap in sociological researc…
Comparing Perceived Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest Tactics
How do U.S. voters view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of social movement tactics? Strategically-used assertive tactics can enable movement success, though tactics considered too disruptive or violent may reduce public support. The authors investigate how U.S. voters perceive the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics. In a representative survey experiment, 497 U.S. voters ranked the disruptiveness and effectiveness of …
Denigrating Women, Venerating “Chad”: Ingroup and Outgroup Evaluations among Male Supremacists on Reddit
Can negative evaluations of a broad outgroup paired with positive evaluations of a broad ingroup, sustain willing affiliation with even intensely self-derogating online communities? Synthesizing concepts from masculinities scholarship, social identity theory, and self-verification theory, this study compares language from two distinctive misogynist communities active on Reddit.com —Men Going Their Own Way, male separatists who positively frame me…
Taking the Redpill: Talking About Extremism
There is great public concern about far-right radicalization online, the process by which individuals are exposed to internet content and then adopt extremist or hateful ideas. However, this concept has two major problems. First, the idea of “radicalization” and “extremism” assumes that to study the radical is to study the other, yet white supremacy and racism are hardly new phenomenon in America. Second, while the internet clearly contributes to…
Denigrating Women, Venerating “Chad”: Ingroup and Outgroup Evaluations among Male Supremacists on Reddit
Can negative evaluations of a broad outgroup paired with positive evaluations of a broad ingroup, sustain willing affiliation with even intensely self-derogating online communities? Synthesizing concepts from masculinities scholarship, social identity theory, and self-verification theory, this study compares language from two distinctive misogynist communities active on Reddit.com —Men Going Their Own Way, male separatists who positively frame me…
True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: Claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok
Taking the Redpill: Talking About Extremism
There is great public concern about far-right radicalization online, the process by which individuals are exposed to internet content and then adopt extremist or hateful ideas. However, this concept has two major problems. First, the idea of “radicalization” and “extremism” assumes that to study the radical is to study the other, yet white supremacy and racism are hardly new phenomenon in America. Second, while the internet clearly contributes to…
Denigrating Women, Venerating “Chad”: Ingroup and Outgroup Evaluations among Male Supremacists on Reddit
Can negative evaluations of a broad outgroup paired with positive evaluations of a broad ingroup, sustain willing affiliation with even intensely self-derogating online communities? Synthesizing concepts from masculinities scholarship, social identity theory, and self-verification theory, this study compares language from two distinctive misogynist communities active on Reddit.com —Men Going Their Own Way, male separatists who positively frame me…
Comparing Perceived Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest Tactics
How do U.S. voters view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of social movement tactics? Strategically-used assertive tactics can enable movement success, though tactics considered too disruptive or violent may reduce public support. The authors investigate how U.S. voters perceive the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics. In a representative survey experiment, 497 U.S. voters ranked the disruptiveness and effectiveness of …
Shapeshifters and Starseeds: Populist Knowledge Production, Generous Epistemology, and Disinformation on U.S. Conspiracy TikTok
This article investigates the intersection of identity, power, and knowledge production on U.S. ConspiracyTok, a genre of TikTok videos promoting conspiracy theories ranging from harmless speculation to harmful disinformation. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of 202 highly viewed videos, we examine how identity markers such as race and gender shape who is empowered or undermined in conspiratorial narratives, and how creators construct and …
True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: Claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok
Paradoxical anonymity, power relations, and appearance policing on r/instagramreality
Appearances are unequally policed in gendered, racialized, and classist systems of power. Technological affordances, or the actions possible across different technological platforms, shape how these practices transpire online. Affordances can operate in gendered, racialized ways: the same platform capabilities can produce different use patterns depending on social contexts, uniquely reinforcing inequalities. I bridge a gap in sociological researc…
Insta-Famous or Invisible: Social Media Use and Belonging at a Public Flagship University
Social media and US public universities hold as-yet-unrealized potential for equity. Both institutions, however, also serve as reminders of social inequality while normalizing relatively privileged lifestyles. Past scholarship highlights how symbolic capital, felt stigma, and self-inflicted symbolic violence can maintain inequality, yet their operation across interconnected digital and higher educational contexts remains under-analyzed. Through 5…
Parasocial paternalism and embodied advice: How cosmetic medicine interventions are marketed on TikTok
Occupational credentials connect to broader power relations, provide authority used to justify appearance-based inequalities, and are linked to the social contexts implicated in cosmetic medical procedures and other beauty interventions. Plastic surgeons, cosmetic dentists, and other medical professionals offering cosmetic procedures advertise to global audiences on digital platforms, where they compete with less prestigiously credentialed counte…
Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest
How do people evaluate social movement protest tactics? Theories covering public perceptions of protest emphasize that activists face a tactical dilemma, employing disruptive tactics to advance goals without alienating public support. Existing quantitative evidence on the perceived relationship between tactical disruptiveness and effectiveness, as well as how tactics are influenced by objective properties or subjective perceptions across social g…
Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works)