Debbie Ging
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Dr. Debbie Ging is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications. She teaches and researches on gender, sexuality and digital media, with a focus on digital hate, online anti-feminist men's rights politics and the incel phenomenon. Her research also addresses youth experiences of gender-based and sexual abuse online and educational interventions to tackle this issue. Debbie is Ireland Corresponding Editor of the journal Men and Masculinities (http://jmm.sagepub.com/) and is a member of the Editorial Board of New Media and Society (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/nms). She is also a member of the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre and of the Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo).
PhD supervision:
- Shane Murphy: Incels and online radicalisation
- John Moran: Beyond pornification and sexualisation: re-theorising sexual representation in popular film
- Glenn Doyle: Irish people's attitudes towards and practices of the domestic photographing of children
- Stephen Desmond: The films of Pedro Almodovar: identity, camp and the carnivalesque
- Caroline Ryan (co-supervising): Dancing in the shadows of the outer limits: an exploration of the subjective realities of female actors working in the American pornography industry
- Paloma Viejo Otero (co-supervising): Hate Speech and Racism in Digital Environments
- Kirsty Park: Changing spaces: exploring the role that the internet plays in the lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) youth aged 18 - 25 in Ireland
- Aileen O'Driscoll: Learning to sell sex(ism)? A cultural sociological analysis of gender in the educational cultures of advertising students and practitioners in Ireland
- Angela Nagle: An investigation into emerging online anti-feminist movements
- Ingrid Lewis: The representation of women in European holocaust films: perpetrators, victims and resisters
- Manuela Ascari: A discourse analysis of interactions from an online pro-anorexia forum (co-supervised, MA by research)
PhD supervision:
- Shane Murphy: Incels and online radicalisation
- John Moran: Beyond pornification and sexualisation: re-theorising sexual representation in popular film
- Glenn Doyle: Irish people's attitudes towards and practices of the domestic photographing of children
- Stephen Desmond: The films of Pedro Almodovar: identity, camp and the carnivalesque
- Caroline Ryan (co-supervising): Dancing in the shadows of the outer limits: an exploration of the subjective realities of female actors working in the American pornography industry
- Paloma Viejo Otero (co-supervising): Hate Speech and Racism in Digital Environments
- Kirsty Park: Changing spaces: exploring the role that the internet plays in the lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) youth aged 18 - 25 in Ireland
- Aileen O'Driscoll: Learning to sell sex(ism)? A cultural sociological analysis of gender in the educational cultures of advertising students and practitioners in Ireland
- Angela Nagle: An investigation into emerging online anti-feminist movements
- Ingrid Lewis: The representation of women in European holocaust films: perpetrators, victims and resisters
- Manuela Ascari: A discourse analysis of interactions from an online pro-anorexia forum (co-supervised, MA by research)
Book
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Ging, Debbie (2022) ''Digital culture, online misogyny and gender-based violence'' In: Handbook on Gender, Communication and Women’s Human Rights. New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell. | |
2022 | Debbie Ging (2022) ''Tactics of Hate: toxic 'creativity' in anti-feminist men's rights politics’' In: The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. Oxfordshire : Taylor and Francis Group. | |
2020 | Ging, Debbie (2020) 'Pro-anorexia and Thinspiration' In: The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. New York : John Wiley & Sons Inc. | |
2019 | Debbie Ging (2019) ''Bros v. Hos: Postfeminism, anti-feminism and the toxic turn in digital gender politics'' In: Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism. London : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2019 | Ging, Debbie (2019) 'Gender, Sexuality, and Irish Film' In: A Companion to British and Irish Cinema. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. | |
2016 | Ross K.;Ging D.;Barlow C. (2016) 'UK and Ireland: Employment, representation and the 30 percent cul-de-sac' In: Gender Equality and the Media: A Challenge for Europe. [DOI] | |
2016 | Ging D.;Free M. (2016) 'Gay in the GAA: The challenge of Dónal Óg Cusack’s ‘coming out’ to heteronormativity in contemporary Irish culture and society' In: Defining Events: Power, Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Ireland. | |
2018 | Áine Ryan, Debbie Ging, Annelies Kamp and Majella McSharry (2018) ''Irish Television and the Assemblage of Personal Narratives of Teenage Pregnancy and Abortion'' In: Re/Assembling the Pregnant and Parenting Teenager Narratives from the Field(s). : Peter Lang. | |
2013 | Ging, Debbie (2013) 'Culture on the Edge: the Postfeminist Challenge' In: Margrit Shildrick & Noreen Giffney(Eds.). Margrit Shildrick & Noreen Giffney (Eds.) Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference (essays in honour of Ailbhe Smyth), Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. | |
2013 | O'Higgins-Norman, James and Ging, Debbie (2013) 'Cyberbullying among Adolescent Girls: Issues and Responses. A Case Study from Ireland' In: The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care. London : Bloomsbury Continuum. | |
2009 | Debbie Ging (2009) 'All-consuming images: new gender formations in post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland' In: Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources. : Manchester University Press. | |
2008 | Debbie Ging (2008) 'Goldfish memories? On seeing and hearing marginalised identities in contemporary Irish cinema' In: Facing the other: interdisciplinary studies on race, gender and social justice in Ireland. : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. | |
2007 | Ging, Debbie (2007) 'New Lads or Protest Masculinities?: Investigating Marginalised Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Film' In: O'Connor, Barbara, Horgan, John and Sheehan, Helena (Eds.)(Eds.). Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations. . Dublin : UCD Press. | |
2004 | Ging, Debbie (2004) 'The Politics of Sound and Image: Eisenstein, Artifice and Acoustic Montage in Contemporary Feminist Cinema ' In: Dunne, Jean and Quigley, Paula (Eds)(Eds.). Dunne, Jean and Quigley, Paula (Eds) The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Cultural and Critical Contexts (Critical Studies 21) Rodopi Press. : 0. | |
2004 | Ging, Debbie and Malcolm, Jackie (2004) 'Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in Ireland: Textual Strategies at Work in the Media Landscape' In: Titley, Gavan (Ed)(Eds.). Titley, Gavan (Ed) Re-situating Culture. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing. : 0. | |
2002 | Ging, Debbie (2002) 'Screening the Green: Irish Cinema under the Celtic Tiger' In: Kirby, Peadar, Gibbons, Luke and Cronin, Michael(Eds.). Reinventing Ireland: Culture and the Celtic Tiger London: Pluto, 2002. : 0. |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Kiely, E.;Ging, D.;Kitching, K.;Leane, M. (2022) 'Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland'. Families, Relationships and Societies, 11 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2021 | Kiely, E., Ging, D. ., Kitching, K., & Leane, M. (2021) 'A Source of Anxiety Like Never Before : Unpacking the Irish Print Media Sexualisation of Children Discourse'. TEANGA, 12 . | |
2020 | Kitching, K., Kiely, E., Ging, D. and Leane, M. (2020) 'Parents' encounters with 'the sexualisation of childhood': Paying attention differently?'. Gender and Education, . https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1786011 | |
2019 | Ging, Debbie and Neary, Aoife (2019) 'Gender, Sexuality, and Bullying Special Issue Editorial'. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, . | |
2019 | Ging D; Lynn T.; and Rosati P. (2019) 'Neologising misogyny: Urban Dictionary’s folksonomies of sexual abuse'. New Media and Society, . https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819870306 | |
2019 | Ging D.;Kiely E.;Kitching K.;Leane M. (2019) '#Slane Girl, beauty pageants and padded bras: flashpoints in the sexualisation of children debate in Irish media and political discourse'. Feminist Media Studies, 19 (3):412-427. [DOI] | |
2019 | Lynn, T., Endo, P., Rosati, P., Silva, I, Leoni, G. and Ging, D. (2019) 'Data set for automatic detection of online misogynistic speech'. Data In Brief, . | |
2018 | Ging, Debbie and Siapera, Eugenia (Eds) (2018) 'Special Issue on Online Misogyny'. Feminist Media Studies, . | |
2017 | Ging, Debbie (2017) 'Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere'. Men and Masculinities, . [DOI] | |
2016 | Ross K.;Boyle K.;Carter C.;Ging D. (2016) 'Women, Men and News: It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it'. Journalism Studies, :1-22. [DOI] | |
2017 | Ging, Debbie and Garvey, Sarah (2017) '‘Written in these scars are the stories I can’t explain’: A content analysis of pro-ana and thinspiration image sharing on Instagram'. New Media and Society, . [DOI] | |
2017 | Ging, Debbie (2017) '‘Memes, Masculinity and Mancession: Love/Hate’s online metatexts’'. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW (ONLINE), 25 (1). | |
2016 | Ging, D. (2016) '‘It’s a great day for a social revolution’: Panti, Drag and the Politics of Performance in Conor Horgan’s The Queen of Ireland'. Estudios Irlandeses, 11 . [Link] | |
2016 | Ging D.;O’Higgins Norman J. (2016) 'Cyberbullying, conflict management or just messing? Teenage girls’ understandings and experiences of gender, friendship, and conflict on Facebook in an Irish second-level school'. Feminist Media Studies, :1-17. [DOI] | |
2007 | Ging, Debbie (2007) 'All the Rage: Digital Games, Female Violence and the Postfeminisation of Cinema’s New Action Heroines'. 4 . | |
2005 | Debbie Ging (2005) 'A 'manual on masculinity'? The consumption and use of mediated images of masculinity among teenage boys in Ireland'. Irish Journal of Sociology, 14 :29-52. | |
2004 | Ging, Debbie (2004) 'The Lad from New Ireland: Marginalised, Disaffected and Criminal Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Cinema'. Vol. 3 :*-*. | |
2003 | Ging, Debbie (2003) 'Noises Off: the Unsung Potential of Sound in Cinema '. 2 :*-*. | |
2019 | Ging, Debbie (2019) 'Gender, Sexuality, and Irish Film'. COMPANION TO BRITISH AND IRISH CINEMA, :386-406. |
Conference Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Lynn, T., Endo, P.T., Rosati, P., Silva, I., Leoni, G. and Ging, D. (2019) IEEE Cyber Science 2019 Conference Detecting Hate Speech Online: A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for Automatic Misogyny Detection in Urban Dictionary Oxford, United Kingdom, 02/06/2019- 04/06/2019 | |
2021 | Ging, D., and Murphy, S. (2021) AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021 Tracking the Pilling Pipeline: Limitations, Challenges and a Call for New Methodological Frameworks in Incel and Manosphere Research https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12174 | |
2019 | Lynn, T.;Endo, P.T.;Rosati, P.;Silva, I.;Santos, G.L.;Ging, D. (2019) 2019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment, Cyber SA 2019 A comparison of machine learning approaches for detecting misogynistic speech in urban dictionary [Link] [DOI] |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Ging, D;Siapera, E (2018) Special issue on online misogyny INTRODUCTION. ABINGDON: ED [DOI] | |
2016 | Ging, D (2016) Queen of Ireland (Conor Horgan 2015). BARCELONA: ED |
Other Journal
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Research Interests
Gender, sexuality and gender politics online. Digital feminism, toxic masculinity, incel 'communities', online radicalisation, online misogyny and hate speech. Educational policy around sex and relationship education, digital citizenship and young people's digital rights. Ethical, bio-political and social justice implications of Artificial Intelligence.