Dr
Catherine
Baker

Primary Department
School of Communications
Role
Postdoctoral Researcher - IRGS
Work Area/Key Responsibilities
Postdoctoral Researcher - IRGS
Catherine
Phone number: 01 700
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
C142

Academic biography

Catherine Baker is an Irish Research Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities (IRGS) at Dublin City University (DCU) and a Fellow with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS). Her IRC-funded research examines the role of science discourse in manosphere, far right, and anti-trans disinformation online. Catherine has a PhD in Media and Communications from Loughborough University’s Online Civic Centre, awarded in 2023. Her research interests include online misogyny, digital platforms, masculinities, algorithmic radicalisation, pseudoscience, and anti-gender movements.
Recent publications include the report “Recommending Toxicity: the role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers”.


Research interests

Research interests: Gender, misogyny, the manosphere, the far-right, anti-gender movements, digital platforms, algorithmic politics, disinformation, pseudoscience, digital and qualitative methodologies

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