Debbie Ging
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View article: Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of <i>Adolescence</i>
Rogue readings of a flashpoint moment: The double-edged sword of <i>Adolescence</i> Open
Since it was released in March 2025, Netflix drama Adolescence has generated a frenzy of debate and discussion among journalists, academics, teachers, parents, conservative organisations and those who work with boys and young men to preven…
View article: Aesthetics of misogyny and the repulsive gaze: Worldview, affect, and ideology in incel imagery <sup/>
Aesthetics of misogyny and the repulsive gaze: Worldview, affect, and ideology in incel imagery <sup/> Open
Like most online radical movements, the incel community heavily relies on images to express and amplify its ideology; yet its visual practices have not yet been comprehensively analysed. Using an original dataset of 31,925 images scraped f…
View article: Mapping the Neo-Manosphere(s): New Directions for Research
Mapping the Neo-Manosphere(s): New Directions for Research Open
In a digital ecology that is increasingly conducive to social harms, misogynist ideology operates across a spectrum of primarily online actors known colloquially as ‘the Manosphere’. The manosphere and its associated red pill philosophy ha…
View article: Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada
Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada Open
In this paper, we report on creative- and arts-based sexual violence and bystander intervention workshops we developed and researched in England, Ireland, and Canada, through evaluation surveys, observations, and focus group interviews wit…
View article: Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada
Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada Open
In this paper, we report on sexual violence and bystander intervention workshops we developed and researched in England, Ireland, and Canada, through evaluation surveys, observations, and creative arts-based approaches with over 1000 young…
View article: Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland
Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland Open
Increasing rates of gender-based and sexual abuse, coupled with a rise in misogynistic influencers online, have become a growing issue in UK and Irish schools. This paper reports on the findings of a postlockdown study in England and Irela…
View article: MISOGYNY, SURVIVORSHIP, AND BELIEVABILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: EMERGING TECHNIQUES OF ABUSE, RADICALIZATION, AND RESISTANCE
MISOGYNY, SURVIVORSHIP, AND BELIEVABILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: EMERGING TECHNIQUES OF ABUSE, RADICALIZATION, AND RESISTANCE Open
On 18th May 2022, in an opinion piece for The New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg declared “the death of #MeToo” (Goldberg, 2022). The papers in this panel examine this claim and wrestle with its potential implications. Drawing on …
View article: Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable' ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere
Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable' ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere Open
In Europe and North America, an increasing proportion of individuals who are referred to de-radicalization programmes, arrested for terrorism offences, or involved in politically motivated violence, present a 'mixed, unclear, and unstable'…
View article: RECLAIMING DIGITAL INTIMACY FOR YOUTH: PILOTING DIGITAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE WORKSHOPS FOR UNDER-18S DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND
RECLAIMING DIGITAL INTIMACY FOR YOUTH: PILOTING DIGITAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE WORKSHOPS FOR UNDER-18S DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND Open
Online sexual abuse and violence have become an urgent global problem for women and girls, and in particular for poor women, women of colour and LGBTQ women (Ging and Siapera, 2019). Online sexual harassment and abuse is an especially urge…
View article: CAN TOXIC MASCULINITIES BE DE-RADICALISED?: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS AND SPREAD OF INCEL IDEOLOGY ONLINE
CAN TOXIC MASCULINITIES BE DE-RADICALISED?: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS AND SPREAD OF INCEL IDEOLOGY ONLINE Open
In recent years, male supremacist and anti-women formations have become increasingly prevalent online. In particular, considerable attention has been focused on the incel (involuntary celibate) community due to a number of high-profile mas…
View article: A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem
A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem Open
The emergence and growth of incel subculture online has triggered a considerable body of research to date, most of which analyzing its worldview or mapping its position and connections within the broader manosphere. While this research has…
View article: Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland
Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland Open
This article considers qualitative data collected from 78 parents in an Irish study on the commercialisation and sexualisation of children. It makes a distinctive contribution in showing that the framework of family display (Finch, 2007) c…
View article: TRACKING THE PILLING PIPELINE: LIMITATIONS, CHALLENGES AND A CALL FOR NEW METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN INCEL AND MANOSPHERE RESEARCH
TRACKING THE PILLING PIPELINE: LIMITATIONS, CHALLENGES AND A CALL FOR NEW METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN INCEL AND MANOSPHERE RESEARCH Open
The manosphere is an online network of disparate formations, which are united in their antipathy toward feminism, their reliance on evolutionary psychology and their belief that Western civilization is under threat. In recent years, a grow…
View article: “A source of anxiety like never before”: Unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourse
“A source of anxiety like never before”: Unpacking the Irish print media sexualisation of children discourse Open
Drawing on a corpus of articles pertaining to the sexualisation of children in national Irish newspapers (2012-2014) and using tools provided by critical discourse analysis, the discourses in their Irish cultural context are ‘unpacked’ (Eg…
View article: "A Source of Anxiety Like Never Before"
"A Source of Anxiety Like Never Before" Open
Drawing on a corpus of articles pertaining to the sexualisation of children in national Irish newspapers (2012-2014) and using tools provided by critical discourse analysis, the discourses in their Irish cultural context are ‘unpacked’ (Eg…
View article: Data set for automatic detection of online misogynistic speech
Data set for automatic detection of online misogynistic speech Open
The data set is composed of 2285 definitions posted on the Urban Dictionary platform from 1999 to May 2016. The data was classified as misogynistic and non-misogynistic by three independent researchers with domain knowledge. The data set i…
View article: Urban Dictionary definitions dataset for misogyny speech detection
Urban Dictionary definitions dataset for misogyny speech detection Open
The data set is composed of 2,285 definitions gathered from the Urban Dictionary platform from 1999 to 2006. The data was classified as misogynistic and non- misogynistic by three independent researchers with domain knowledge. The data set…
View article: Special issue on online misogyny
Special issue on online misogyny Open
This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have been transformed by the technological affordances…
View article: Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager
Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager Open
Drawing in contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book seeks to foreground shifting experiences of teenage pregnancy and parenting in time and space. In the process, …