Gatekeeping

I remember one person asked for help on starting discussion around some questions from their professor and they were run off the server essentially. Told things like "this isn't a study help server, if you don't know this you shouldn't be here" or something along those lines. I feel like saying those things cripples any interest in a subject :/

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Another example of elementary objectivation is the acronym or logo. A group begins to exist when it has an acronym or logo. It is not by chance that there are struggles for the ownership of titles, although these are only words. People fight for the right to claim a name. For example, in fights over an intellectual legacy, the struggle to inherit a name is extremely important. To take possession of the title of a review or the legacy of the Durkheimian sociologists is a very important issue because these founding fathers of the intellectual field play a part in our societies that corresponds to the role of ancestors in precapitalist societies and if the Revue française de sociologie devotes 60 per cent of its pages to discussing Durkheimian sociologists, it is of course because it's interesting to deal with them, but also and especially because theirs is an important legacy and the person who inherits this legacy acquires the rights, for example, to the social definition of the legitimate way of practicing sociology. Names and acronyms—and I will come back to the acronyms—are very important because the holder of the name and of the monopoly of the acronym has very important rights over the group. It is like the right of signature to which I shall return. -- Bourdieu's lecture of June 9, 1982

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Gatekeeping is the process by which individuals or (sub)communities are excluded from or policed by the broader community to which they belong due to intersectional discrimination, horizontal oppression, respectability politics, and so on. For example, the underrepresentation of and discrimination against women of colour within feminist discourse is in part a result of white feminist (i.e., racist) gatekeeping.

[Inevitable gatekeeping.] Naturally when this happens, the song’s popularity is quickly boosted by those desperate to prove that they listened to the track before it was TikTok approved. A quick search of “Kate Bush TikTok” on Twitter and you’re met with a wall of disgruntled fans fuming at the song’s revived mainstream popularity. They then take to TikTok to attempt to assert their superiority, and in turn only make it more viral.

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Gatekeeping is sometimes done to impress behavioral leader.

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Gatekeeping is a process by which information is filtered to the public by the media.

• Gate; Keeping; Boundary; Shibboleth; Barring; Guarding; See more generally: Boundaries; Exclusion.
• Fait accompli

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