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Professor of Digital Media and Gender, researching online misogyny, the manosphere and male supremacism @AntiBullyingCen and @FuJoMedia . She/her

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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
What a dreadful take @BBCWorld . Jacinta Ardern has been a torchbearer for an alternative mode of political leadership - one that prioritises empathy, integrity and ethics - in a world of self-aggrandising, megalomaniac populists. She had it all. She *has* it all. Do better.
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3 years
That so many commentators on the Eoghan McDermott case cannot distinguish between what is *legal* and what is *ethical* underscores the need to teach both philosophy and better RSE in our schools. (Age of) consent is not straightforward when there a significant power imbalance
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2 years
I wrote this piece on masculinity, the manosphere and mental health because so many boys are saying that Tate is good for mental health and self-improvement advice. He’s not.
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1 year
Delighted to have received the DCU President's Award for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences today
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Dublin City University
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Dr Debbie Ging @debbieging receives #DCUPresidentAwards in the 'Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences' category for research on the misogynist radicalisation of young men and boys. Dr Ging has led innovative, multidisciplinary research in the area @DCU_SoC @DCU_Research
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2 years
My research requires me to view a lot of deeply disturbing content on the internet. But nothing prepared me for this 😱
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
First Zoom lectures recorded and uploaded. It looks like students are going to get to know my cats over the coming weeks... @DCU_SoC #PandemicPedagogy
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Author copies of our new book Gender Hate Online have arrived. Launch in early October. Details to follow... @eugeniasiapera @DCU_SoC @FuJoMedia @PalgraveCultMed
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Presenting the findings of our study on TikTok and YouTube shorts recommender algorithms and the radicalisation of boys and men into manosphere ideologies at ⁦⁦ @AoIR_org ⁩ with ⁦ @Cathy__Baker ⁩ ⁦ @MajaBAndreasen1 ⁩ ⁦⁦ @DCU @AntiBullyingCen
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2 years
@DonkeySancIre That video is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen online (and I research online hate for a living). I couldn’t sleep last night after watching it. Thanks for rescuing these beautiful souls and for letting us know s/he is OK ❤️
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2 years
@Rubberbandits Imagine making politically motivated art!
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2 years
Huge congratulations to Dr. Shane Murphy who passed his PhD viva on Friday. Co-supervised by Prof. @galwaygrrl and myself on incel pathways into male supremacist ideologies. A very significant contribution to manosphere research @FuJoMedia @DCU_SoC @LawGovDCU @HumanitiesDCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Very proud of Dr ⁦ @glenndoyledkit ⁩ who was awarded his PhD ⁦⁦⁦ @DCU ⁩ today (an excellent study on photographing children). No easy task when you’re lecturing full-time, have 2 young children and are caring for a relative 💪🏼👏🏼🎉🥂⁦ @DCU_SoC ⁩ ⁦⁦
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
More exciting funding news to kick off 2022 - @DrJoshuaRoose @MichaelGLFlood and I have been awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery grant for our project 'Anti-women online movements: Pathways and patterns of participation' @DCU @FuJoMedia @DCU_SoC @HumanitiesDCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Our new book, Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism (edited by myself and @eugeniasiapera and with chapters from @tanyalokot , @arp_chak and many more great scholars) is now on the virtual shelves @DCU_SoC
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
So great to see this book out in the world. I'm honoured to have a chapter in it titled 'Tactics of Hate: Toxic “creativity” in anti-feminist men's rights politics'. One of 57 chapters - kudos to the editors
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Karen Boyle
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📢 New book, out TODAY! Edited by me @StrathHum & Susan Berridge @StirUni . Commissioned the week before lockdown in 2020 this has been quite a journey 🧵
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
The future of journalism is pale, male and Matthew?! @ManelWatchIre
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Institute of Economic Affairs
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🚨 Starting now, our #ThinkTent23 panel on the future of journalism and digital platforms. 🗣️ @matthewlesh | @JWhittingdale | @mattwarman | @mjhsinclair | David Matthew | @OwenMeredithNMA Join us in the ThinkTent or follow along live 👇
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Katarina, @DCU coffee truck's most loyal customer, waits for her daily croissant
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This huge book arrived today. So many great chapters from my comrades in gender studies, media studies and beyond. Well done ⁦ @ProfKarenBoyle ⁩ and Susan Berridge for bringing it all together ⁦ @DCU_Research ⁩ ⁦ @HumanitiesDCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
6 years
It is estimated that only 15% of Wikipedia's editors are women. Editing women's pages at our Wikipedia edit-a-thon in @DublinCityUni today with @restlesscurator from @WikimediaIE as part of International Women's Day events @IWD2019 @DCU_SoC
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Professor Debbie Ging
11 months
The Handbook of Gender, Communication and Women’s Human Rights, in which I have a chapter on 'Digital Culture, Online Misogyny, and Gender-based Violence', is now published and available for pre-order @HumanitiesDCU @DCU_Research
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
At @DCU Research on Walls awards today with our PhD student @pragyadevv (me and @ivorytowerjourn co-supervisors) - stunning photo montage representing Pragyaa's research on violence against women journalists in India
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Professor Debbie Ging
6 months
Our @AntiBullyingCen report with @Cathy__Baker and @MajaBAndreasen1 on how TikTok and YouTube Shorts recommender algorithms promote male supremacist influencers to boys and young men is now published @AntiBullyingCen @DCU_Research
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Giving a keynote at the 'Masculinity, masculinist politics and violent extremism in the Nordic' network in Stockholm and meeting great scholars. Thanks for inviting me @lgottzen
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Professor Debbie Ging
8 months
Great to see this paper published in @gaejournal ! Based on school workshops we delivered during Covid-19 in Ireland and the UK with @JessicaRingrose @Betsymilne_ @tanyahoreck @kaitlynn_mendes + @ricardoccsilva @AntiBullyingCen @DCU_Research
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Presenting our paper on the visual rhetoric of the incelosphere at @AoIR_org 2023 with @StephaneBaele @Lew_Brace Simone Long and Shane Murphy @DCU @FuJoMedia
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Impossible to believe that the fearless, super talented force of nature that is Sinead O'Connor is gone. May she rest in power and peace 💔
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Sky over @DublinCityUni this morning
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
Dubliners - if you’re 50-59 and looking for a booster, the Swords / Airport vaccination centre is open all day and is super fast. 30 minutes max 💉
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Important and timely report being launched by our @DCU_SoC @FuJoMedia @HumanitiesDCU colleague @dawnwheatos on Irish women journalists' experiences of online hostility and misogyny at the @RIAdawson on 16th May @IrishResearch
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
Very excited to announce that @Lew_Brace @uniofexteter and I have been awarded CREST funding to look at the spread of Incel ideology and its links with online extremism @DCU @HumanitiesDCU @FuJo @crest_research Full project details:
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Good morning Philadelphia!
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Professor Debbie Ging
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Tweeting from the #AthenaSWANIreland Awards Ceremony, at which @DCU_SoC has received @DCU 's first Bronze departmental award. Proud to have led this with @Aileen_OD and @donalmulligan and thanks to all our colleagues in the School and university who helped make this happen
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
@bfcdublin away jersey spotted at the Matterhorn in Switzerland! @dlLambo
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Massive thanks to @JessicaRingrose for launching our report today about 'Young people's experiences of gender-based & sexual harassment and abuse' and to @DCU @AntiBullyingCen @FuJoMedia @WeAreTUDublin and #AoIR2022 for hosting it Read the report here -
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Professor Debbie Ging
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Last week we welcomed our 10 newly registered PhDs + project partners on the PARTICIPATE Marie-Curie Doctoral Network to @DCU @AntiBullyingCen for 3 days of meetings (and some fun). This €2.8 million project addresses the role of parents in cyberbullying #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Our report on 'The Impact of the Use of Social Media on Women and Girls' is now published! Commissioned by the @Europarl_EN Dept. for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of @EP_GenderEqual @FuJoMedia @HumanitiesDCU @hypertextlife
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Professor Debbie Ging
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Funded PhD opportunity to work with me on Digital sexual literacy and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ youth in Ireland @DCU_SoC @HumanitiesDCU @Belong_To
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Huge congratulations Dr. Shane Murphy! It's been an honour and a pleasure to co-supervise you with @galwaygrrl A very happy day! @DCU_SoC @LawGovDCU #DCUgraduation
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
“You can’t just teach one RHSE [relationships, health and sex education] lesson on this; you need to have a whole-school ethos. We need to make it a priority.” @JessicaRingrose in today's Guardian
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Professor Debbie Ging
6 years
Special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Online Misogyny guest edited by @debbieging and @eugeniasiapera now available at @DCU_SoC @FuJoMedia
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
There are still a couple of places left on my Ethics in Digital Research module next week ( @DCU_SoC @irdggroup Doctoral Summer School). Designed for digital researchers wishing to expand their knowledge + practices in ethical research
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Special issue on Gender, Sexuality and Bullying co-edited by myself and @aoifeneary of @UL is now out in the International Journal of Bullying Prevention @DCU_SoC @AntiBullyingCen
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
@DCU campus is buzzing this morning. It's great to be back!
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Professor Debbie Ging
4 years
@roisiningle @AkaPaulHoward @MarianKeyes @Quantanamo Well done and thank you for writing this. The use of character witnesses in rape trials serves only to remind us that there is a strong imperative for certain men to collectively and consciously defend the myth that misogyny is Other, and nothing to do with mainstream society
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Professor Debbie Ging
6 months
Over and over and over with this judge. Every time. How can this be allowed to continue? Man who sexually assaulted 16-year-old girl on Ryanair flight handed suspended sentence
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Second remote PhD viva within a week. Huge congratulations to @MajaBAndreasen1 on a really outstanding piece of work and passing without corrections. I think the joy of it - in the midst of so much sadness and confusion - made us all a bit emotional @ProfKarenBoyle
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Am I the only person who can find NOTHING EVER on Google Drive?
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
At the European Parliament in Brussels this morning with @hypertextlife to present our recent report co-authored with Shane Murphy and @_JCMcGrath_ on The Impact of Social media on Women and Girls @DCU @FuJoMedia @HumanitiesDCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
4 years
A new database of female contributors for Irish broadcast media has been launched by Women on Air. Let's get more female expert voices on the airwaves in 2021. Register for the database at
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Delighted and excited to have had 2 papers accepted for #AoIR2022 - with @JessicaRingrose @kaitlynn_mendes @tanyahoreck @KarenDesborough Betsy Milne and @ricardoccsilva on our Digital Sexual Violence Workshops, and one with @Lew_Brace and Stephane Baele on mapping Incel Ideology
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Professor Debbie Ging
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Super proud of @glenndoyledkit who defended his PhD thesis today in @DCU_SoC and is now Dr. Glenn Doyle to you all. Huge thanks to examiners @BONeillTUDublin and @trishmorgan for such an insightful and engaging viva and to @tanyalokot for excellent chairing
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Minister @SimonHarrisTD at the launch of a new @DCU @AntiBullyingCen report on student experiences of bullying in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ireland by Dr Michael Goldrick, myself, @DrIreneConnolly and Eamonn Jones @DeptofFHed @myIADT @NCIRL
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
Thanks to all who worked so hard in helping @DCU_SoC achieve @DCU 's first #AthenaSwanIreland Bronze departmental award @joanneellen_ @fgrayf @HumanitiesDCU @EDIatDCU We look forward to the ongoing project of making our School more equal and inclusive @Aileen_OD @donalmulligan
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Professor Debbie Ging
11 months
Speaking on the panel at yesterday's @UCDDiscovery #AIandSociety event in the NCH following Professor Stuart Russell's excellent keynote with @BarryOSullivan @CNaM_i and @susanleavy @insight_centre @DigitalPolicyIE @FuJoMedia @DCU_Research #ArtificialIntelligence
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Professor Debbie Ging
4 years
A podcast I did last year on Incels and the Manosphere is now up on YouTube, part of Stephane Baele's Extreme Calls series, also featuring @galwaygrrl on Online Extremists and Charlie Winter on Islamic State Propaganda @DCU_SoC @LawGovDCU @FuJoMedia
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
It doesn’t matter what time of the day or night, what she was wearing, what she was doing. We need to educate boys and men, be active bystanders, blame perpetrators, not victims, ensure Gardaí answer 999 calls, stop saying #NotAllMen – start asking #WhySoManyMen ? LISTEN TO WOMEN
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
We are wondering how our article on incels published in January has got over 60k views already? Then @StephaneBaele discovered it has generated 2.6k (serious) comments on r/science (the New Reddit Journal of Science) 👀 #impact !
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
This amazing apple and caramel custard trifle was the highlight of our Christmas dinner yesterday - thanks to @Colmogorman for the recipe!
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Professor Debbie Ging
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@roisiningle @MarianKeyes @AkaPaulHoward We were allowed to wear trousers in the early 80s as part of our uniform. Kinda shocking that girls are still having to petition for this in 2019. But good on her! 💪👖
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
PhD students - @DCU_IDRG and @DCU_SoC are hosting a 2 week, no-fee Doctoral Summer School in Digital Research Methods and Digital Research Ethics this June. I will be delivering the Digital Research Ethics component in week 1
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DCU Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group
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IDRG and @DCU_SoC are hosting a new Summer School, composed of two graduate training modules well suited to those across the social sciences who are planning research projects, engaged in doctoral research, or at early career stage.
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Speaking at this tomorrow on 'Echo Chambers, Circlejerks and Networked Loneliness: Connection and Isolation in the Mansophere'
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Professor Debbie Ging
4 months
It was a privilege to speak on the panel yesterday at the @ChildRightsIRL #YouthSafetyOnline event chaired by @Noeline_B with Alex Cooney from @CyberSafeKidsIE and @FMJennings from @ISPCCChildline . As always @Livingstone_S gave a powerful, insightful and nuanced keynote address
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
Having a great time at @QEDcon in Manchester - thanks for having me!
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Welcoming a New Zealand delegation to @DCU today led by Minister of Internal Affairs + Minister for Women Jan Tinetti MP ( @jantinetti ) to share research and ideas on #onlinesafety with @JaneSuit and @hypertextlife from @FuJoMedia and James Norman from @AntiBullyingCen
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Well done @austinoc_austin on completing a 3k walk, 1k swim and 50k cycle today to raise funds for GP Care for All 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Gender Hate Online edited by myself and @eugeniasiapera is available for just €9.99 until December 3 with code CYBER19PAL from @Palgrave_
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Professor Debbie Ging
1 year
At the @AbbeyTheatre to see the amazing Marina Carr's Girl on an Altar @HumanitiesDCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
A lovely tribute to my dear Dad
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Brian O'Driscoll
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RIP Ginger.
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@DCU ⁩ spring graduation ceremony yesterday graduation 🎓
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Huge turnout at today’s solidarity march #DiversityNotDivision
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Professor Debbie Ging
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Our study shows that, while levels of violent extremist language vary across the incelosphere, they have steadily increased in the main online spaces since the subculture's inception. We also show that these online spaces are responsive to real-world, offline, events
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
This special issue on Gender, Sexuality and Bullying is now officially out. Please DM me if you'd like free PDFs and R/T to colleagues who may be interested @aoifeneary @DCU_SoC @AntiBullyingCen @audreypoststruc
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Sameer Hinduja
5 years
Guess what! Our Dec 2019 issue of the International Journal of Bullying Prevention is finally OUT, all on Gender, Sexuality, and Bullying! Article list is below - get your free PDFs and R/T to colleagues who may be interested! (T/Y @debbieging @aoifeneary )
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2 years
Such a lovely tribute to my Dad by @MattRCNM - he would have loved this so much💙
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Leinster Rugby
2 years
Former Leinster Rugby Team Manager, Ken Ging, was laid to rest earlier this week. In tribute, we asked former Leinster Rugby Head Coach, @MattRCNM , for his reflections on Ken. 📰 | Read the full story here 👉 #FromTheGroundUp
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
Presenting our digital game on gender-based + sexual abuse among young people (in Spanish 😰) in Vigo today to a packed auditorium @DCU @AntiBullyingCen @gegameproject @EUErasmusPlus
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Professor Debbie Ging
4 years
Out now - a podcast I did with @alexdibranco from @TheIRMS for @techvsterrorism on incels, online misogyny and gender-based terrorism @DCU @DCU_SoC @FuJoMedia
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Tech Against Terrorism
4 years
🎙️Podcast alert! In this episode we discuss the Incel movement, the threat they pose, their role in the online misogynist "manosphere" and the implications for the tech sector, with @debbieging from @DCU_SoC and @alexdibranco from the @TheIRMS . |
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Applications are still open for a funded PhD in @DCU_SoC on Digital sexual literacy and wellbeing among LGBTQ+ youth in Ireland. For details, see -
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Professor Debbie Ging
3 years
Honoured to be keynoting with this stellar cast at the #SPHENetwork #conference on Nov 12th with @Livingstone_S and Prof Brian O'Neill @WeAreTUDublin Call for papers, posters & workshops here: … @KeatingSeline @DCU_SoC @AntiBullyingCen @DCU
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Professor Debbie Ging
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My piece on sexual consent in today’s Independent @DCU_SoC
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Professor Debbie Ging
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'The British Academy study says that... such courses play a vital role in the UK’s £108bn creative industries and have become increasingly relevant in a world grappling with new technologies, artificial intelligence and the dangers of disinformation
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Professor Debbie Ging
5 years
Delivering my keynote address today at #EUPOP2019 on Mainstreaming the Manosphere: Social Media and Circuits of Digital Hate in MIC Limerick @DCU_SoC @FuJoMedia
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Professor Debbie Ging
2 years
An important report co-authored by @galwaygrrl which addresses researchers' security, safety and resilience when researching online extremism, terrorism and associated areas
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VOX-Pol
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Our new report is now #openaccess on our website at . #PleaseRT and share the report with colleagues and students working in our field and allied research areas. CC @tillbaaken @SaraZeiger
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