Tony P Love
Biographic Data
| ID | 95981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony P Love |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony P |
| FAMILY NAME | Love |
| SIGNATURE | LOVE T P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9922-448X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
Does the National Crime Victimization Survey Capture the Reality of Sexual Violence? Mapping #WhyIDidntReport to National Crime Victimization Survey Categories
Incidents of sexual violence frequently go unreported. While victimization surveys provide insight into the reasons why, evidence suggests that these surveys are failing to capture some of the most important reasons survivors do not report. This study draws on tweets using #WhyIDidntReport to examine how the reasons provided by survivors on social media map onto the National Crime Victimization Survey's categorization schema. We find that the sur…
Role-taking and robotic form: An exploratory study of social connection in human-robot interaction
Intersecting matters: GeorgeFloyd and #Covid19
In the late spring of 2020 amid a global pandemic, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, triggering mass protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement. We take this moment of coinciding crises as our point of analysis observed through the lens of concurrent hashtags on Twitter. Social media content both reflect and construct the social meanings of topics and events. We thus draw from social media to understan…
Facing Others’ Trauma: A Role-Taking Theory of Burnout
The experience of “burnout” is characterized by emotional fatigue and detachment associated with intensive stress. Burnout is prevalent across personal and professional spheres, with increasing cultural salience. Multiple factors can contribute to burnout. Here, we focus on one: exposure to others’ trauma. This circumstance spans domains from social service professions to social media newsfeeds, with potentially deleterious effects on the self. T…
Racial Differences in Women’s Role-Taking Accuracy: How Status Matters
Role-taking is the process of mentally and affectively placing the self in the position of another, understanding the world from the other’s perspective. Role-taking serves an expressive function within interpersonal interaction, supporting others to pursue instrumental tasks that are recognized, valued, and rewarded. In the present work, we compare role-taking accuracy between white women and black women across status-varying interactional arran…
Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data
Identity theory (IT) and social identity theory (SIT) are eminent research programs from sociology and psychology, respectively. We test collective identity as a point of convergence between the two programs. Collective identity is a subtheory of SIT that pertains to activist identification. Collective identity maps closely onto identity theory’s group/social identity, which refers to identification with socially situated identity categories. We …
Opportunities Diverted: Intake Diversion and Institutionalized Racial Disadvantage in the Juvenile Justice System
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
Seriously funny: The political work of humor on social media
Research shows a clear intersection between humor and political communication online as “big data” analyses demonstrate humorous content achieving disproportionate attention across social media platforms. What remains unclear is the degree to which politics are fodder for “silly” content production vis-à-vis humor as a serious political tool. To answer this question, we scraped Twitter data from two cases in which humor and politics converged dur…
Generalizing from social media data: A Formal Theory Approach
Researchers increasingly draw on social media data to answer big questions about social patterns and dynamics. However, as with any data source, social media data present both opportunities and significant challenges. One major critique of social media data is that the data are not generalizable outside of the platforms from which the data originate. Problems of generalizability stem from non-universal participation rates on various platforms, de…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
Women Who Stay: A Morality Work Perspective
Women who choose to stay in abusive relationships occupy a morally ambiguous identity category. They are at once pitied for their victimhood and shamed for their participation in it. We examine debates over women who stay using the highly publicized case of Janay Rice, who actively defended her professional football player husband, Ray Rice, following the release of a video in which he knocked her unconscious. Specifically, we engage in sentiment…
The Effect of Status on Identity Stability
Using 77 status-imbalanced dyads, we experimentally test the effect of status on identity stability, setting the stage for research on identity change. From an identity theory perspective, we hypothesize that those with higher status will maintain greater identity stability over the course of a task-oriented interaction than their relatively lower status partners. We further test the role of identity-discrepant information. Results indicate that …
The Consequences of School Environment and Locus of Control on Adulthood Deviant Behavior
We examine the long-term effect of school environment on individual deviant behavior. Specifically, we contrast the effects of school deviance and students' perception of school deviance on personal deviance later in life. Using longitudinal data from four waves of more than 3,100 participants in the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigenerational Study, we are able to show that school deviance in 7th grade has only a short-term effect on individual de…
Ethnic Group Differences in Police Notification About Intimate Partner Violence
We analyzed data from the National Crime Victimization Survey to test whether individuals from different ethnic groups differentially notify the police after incidents of partner violence. After finding that minority groups notified the police about intimate partner violence (IPV) events more than non-minorities, we found that socioeconomic status differences between minorities and non-minorities explained a statistically significant proportion o…
The Effect of Status on Role-Taking Accuracy
We conducted two experiments to test the effects of status on the relationship between gender and role-taking accuracy. Role-taking accuracy denotes the accuracy with which one can predict another's behavior. In Study 1, we examine self-evaluative measures of role-taking accuracy and find they do not correlate with actual role-taking accuracy. In addition, women were more accurate role-takers than men, regardless of interaction history. In Study …
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
Seriously funny: The political work of humor on social media
Research shows a clear intersection between humor and political communication online as “big data” analyses demonstrate humorous content achieving disproportionate attention across social media platforms. What remains unclear is the degree to which politics are fodder for “silly” content production vis-à-vis humor as a serious political tool. To answer this question, we scraped Twitter data from two cases in which humor and politics converged dur…
Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data
Identity theory (IT) and social identity theory (SIT) are eminent research programs from sociology and psychology, respectively. We test collective identity as a point of convergence between the two programs. Collective identity is a subtheory of SIT that pertains to activist identification. Collective identity maps closely onto identity theory’s group/social identity, which refers to identification with socially situated identity categories. We …
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
The Effect of Status on Role-Taking Accuracy
We conducted two experiments to test the effects of status on the relationship between gender and role-taking accuracy. Role-taking accuracy denotes the accuracy with which one can predict another's behavior. In Study 1, we examine self-evaluative measures of role-taking accuracy and find they do not correlate with actual role-taking accuracy. In addition, women were more accurate role-takers than men, regardless of interaction history. In Study …
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
Generalizing from social media data: A Formal Theory Approach
Researchers increasingly draw on social media data to answer big questions about social patterns and dynamics. However, as with any data source, social media data present both opportunities and significant challenges. One major critique of social media data is that the data are not generalizable outside of the platforms from which the data originate. Problems of generalizability stem from non-universal participation rates on various platforms, de…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
Ethnic Group Differences in Police Notification About Intimate Partner Violence
We analyzed data from the National Crime Victimization Survey to test whether individuals from different ethnic groups differentially notify the police after incidents of partner violence. After finding that minority groups notified the police about intimate partner violence (IPV) events more than non-minorities, we found that socioeconomic status differences between minorities and non-minorities explained a statistically significant proportion o…
Opportunities Diverted: Intake Diversion and Institutionalized Racial Disadvantage in the Juvenile Justice System
Women Who Stay: A Morality Work Perspective
Women who choose to stay in abusive relationships occupy a morally ambiguous identity category. They are at once pitied for their victimhood and shamed for their participation in it. We examine debates over women who stay using the highly publicized case of Janay Rice, who actively defended her professional football player husband, Ray Rice, following the release of a video in which he knocked her unconscious. Specifically, we engage in sentiment…
Racial Differences in Women’s Role-Taking Accuracy: How Status Matters
Role-taking is the process of mentally and affectively placing the self in the position of another, understanding the world from the other’s perspective. Role-taking serves an expressive function within interpersonal interaction, supporting others to pursue instrumental tasks that are recognized, valued, and rewarded. In the present work, we compare role-taking accuracy between white women and black women across status-varying interactional arran…
Facing Others’ Trauma: A Role-Taking Theory of Burnout
The experience of “burnout” is characterized by emotional fatigue and detachment associated with intensive stress. Burnout is prevalent across personal and professional spheres, with increasing cultural salience. Multiple factors can contribute to burnout. Here, we focus on one: exposure to others’ trauma. This circumstance spans domains from social service professions to social media newsfeeds, with potentially deleterious effects on the self. T…
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
The Consequences of School Environment and Locus of Control on Adulthood Deviant Behavior
We examine the long-term effect of school environment on individual deviant behavior. Specifically, we contrast the effects of school deviance and students' perception of school deviance on personal deviance later in life. Using longitudinal data from four waves of more than 3,100 participants in the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigenerational Study, we are able to show that school deviance in 7th grade has only a short-term effect on individual de…
Developing and Assessing Intercoder Reliability in Studies of Group Interaction
Although group interaction is a rich source of data, it offers many challenges for analysis. We discuss how pretesting can solve many coding and reliability issues before the actual data collection and analysis. We also consider how coding schemes can be developed, how coders can be trained, and how coder reliability can be ascertained. We examine the properties of different estimates of intercoder reliability and detail how these relate to decis…
Ethnic Group Differences in Police Notification About Intimate Partner Violence
We analyzed data from the National Crime Victimization Survey to test whether individuals from different ethnic groups differentially notify the police after incidents of partner violence. After finding that minority groups notified the police about intimate partner violence (IPV) events more than non-minorities, we found that socioeconomic status differences between minorities and non-minorities explained a statistically significant proportion o…
The Effect of Status on Role-Taking Accuracy
We conducted two experiments to test the effects of status on the relationship between gender and role-taking accuracy. Role-taking accuracy denotes the accuracy with which one can predict another's behavior. In Study 1, we examine self-evaluative measures of role-taking accuracy and find they do not correlate with actual role-taking accuracy. In addition, women were more accurate role-takers than men, regardless of interaction history. In Study …
The Consequences of School Environment and Locus of Control on Adulthood Deviant Behavior
We examine the long-term effect of school environment on individual deviant behavior. Specifically, we contrast the effects of school deviance and students' perception of school deviance on personal deviance later in life. Using longitudinal data from four waves of more than 3,100 participants in the Kaplan Longitudinal and Multigenerational Study, we are able to show that school deviance in 7th grade has only a short-term effect on individual de…
The Effect of Status on Identity Stability
Using 77 status-imbalanced dyads, we experimentally test the effect of status on identity stability, setting the stage for research on identity change. From an identity theory perspective, we hypothesize that those with higher status will maintain greater identity stability over the course of a task-oriented interaction than their relatively lower status partners. We further test the role of identity-discrepant information. Results indicate that …
Assessing online misogyny: Perspectives from sociology and feminist media studies
Scholarly and lay publications have highlighted increasing online misogyny. We review the dominant, cross‐disciplinary analyses and conceptualizations of cisnormative, heterosexist, misogynistic discourses. From feminist media scholarship, we highlight four terms intended to describe acts of online misogyny: online sexual harassment, gendertrolling, e‐bile, and disciplinary rhetoric. We then review the nascent sociological concept of virtual manh…
Seriously funny: The political work of humor on social media
Research shows a clear intersection between humor and political communication online as “big data” analyses demonstrate humorous content achieving disproportionate attention across social media platforms. What remains unclear is the degree to which politics are fodder for “silly” content production vis-à-vis humor as a serious political tool. To answer this question, we scraped Twitter data from two cases in which humor and politics converged dur…
Generalizing from social media data: A Formal Theory Approach
Researchers increasingly draw on social media data to answer big questions about social patterns and dynamics. However, as with any data source, social media data present both opportunities and significant challenges. One major critique of social media data is that the data are not generalizable outside of the platforms from which the data originate. Problems of generalizability stem from non-universal participation rates on various platforms, de…
TheFappening: Virtual Manhood Acts in (Homo)Social Media
Using an interactionist framework, we analyze publicly available data from Twitter to track real-time reactions to the widely publicized celebrity nude photo hacking of 2014 ('The Fappening'). We ask: 'Related to The Fappening, what manhood acts are employed in virtual social space?' Using search terms for 'fappening' or '#thefappening,' we collected 100 tweets per hour from August 31 to October 1, 2014 (Average: 1,700/day). Coding and qualitativ…
Women Who Stay: A Morality Work Perspective
Women who choose to stay in abusive relationships occupy a morally ambiguous identity category. They are at once pitied for their victimhood and shamed for their participation in it. We examine debates over women who stay using the highly publicized case of Janay Rice, who actively defended her professional football player husband, Ray Rice, following the release of a video in which he knocked her unconscious. Specifically, we engage in sentiment…
Collective Social Identity: Synthesizing Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory Using Digital Data
Identity theory (IT) and social identity theory (SIT) are eminent research programs from sociology and psychology, respectively. We test collective identity as a point of convergence between the two programs. Collective identity is a subtheory of SIT that pertains to activist identification. Collective identity maps closely onto identity theory’s group/social identity, which refers to identification with socially situated identity categories. We …
Opportunities Diverted: Intake Diversion and Institutionalized Racial Disadvantage in the Juvenile Justice System
Racial Differences in Women’s Role-Taking Accuracy: How Status Matters
Role-taking is the process of mentally and affectively placing the self in the position of another, understanding the world from the other’s perspective. Role-taking serves an expressive function within interpersonal interaction, supporting others to pursue instrumental tasks that are recognized, valued, and rewarded. In the present work, we compare role-taking accuracy between white women and black women across status-varying interactional arran…
Intersecting matters: GeorgeFloyd and #Covid19
In the late spring of 2020 amid a global pandemic, George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, triggering mass protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement. We take this moment of coinciding crises as our point of analysis observed through the lens of concurrent hashtags on Twitter. Social media content both reflect and construct the social meanings of topics and events. We thus draw from social media to understan…
Facing Others’ Trauma: A Role-Taking Theory of Burnout
The experience of “burnout” is characterized by emotional fatigue and detachment associated with intensive stress. Burnout is prevalent across personal and professional spheres, with increasing cultural salience. Multiple factors can contribute to burnout. Here, we focus on one: exposure to others’ trauma. This circumstance spans domains from social service professions to social media newsfeeds, with potentially deleterious effects on the self. T…
Role-taking and robotic form: An exploratory study of social connection in human-robot interaction
Hatespeech or Tatespeech? Andrew Tate and the rise of the radical misogynist
This study examines influencer Andrew Tate’s social media content as embodying virtual manhood acts (VMA)—technologically facilitated misogyny in online spaces. Through content analysis of 13 Tate videos from 2022, we demonstrate how his performances of masculinity extend beyond reinforcing gender binaries to potentially facilitating gender radicalization leading to misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic attitudes and behaviors. Applying McCau…
Does the National Crime Victimization Survey Capture the Reality of Sexual Violence? Mapping #WhyIDidntReport to National Crime Victimization Survey Categories
Incidents of sexual violence frequently go unreported. While victimization surveys provide insight into the reasons why, evidence suggests that these surveys are failing to capture some of the most important reasons survivors do not report. This study draws on tweets using #WhyIDidntReport to examine how the reasons provided by survivors on social media map onto the National Crime Victimization Survey's categorization schema. We find that the sur…
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