Debbie Ging is 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, the incel subculture and radicalisation of boys and men into male supremacist ideologies. 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:
- Rodica Alliman: The French and Romanian Far Right on You Tube: a Comparative Multimodal Analysis
- Pragyaa Chandel: Women journalists and online abuse and harassment: psycho-emotional toll and its repercussions on journalism in India
- PhD supervision committee Emilia Lounela, Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change, University of Helsinki
Book
Book Chapter
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2023 | Debbie Ging (2023) 'Digital culture, online misogyny and gender-based violence' In: Handbook on Gender, Communication and Women’s Human Rights. New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell. | |
2023 | Debbie Ging (2023) 'Tactics of Hate: toxic 'creativity' in anti-feminist men's rights politics' In: The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. London : Routledge. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. [Link] [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. [Link] | |
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
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2024 | Ging, D., Ringrose, J., Milne, B., Horeck, T., Mendes, K., & Castellini da Silva, R. (2024) 'Moving beyond masculine defensiveness and anxiety in the classroom: exploring gendered responses to sexual and gender based violence workshops in England and Ireland'. Gender and Education, . | |
2023 | Brace, L., Baele, S. and Ging, D (2023) 'Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable' ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere'. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, . https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2023.2226667 | |
2024 | Baele, S.; Brace, L.; Ging, D. (2024) 'A Diachronic Cross-Platforms Analysis of Violent Extremist Language in the Incel Online Ecosystem'. Terrorism and Political Violence, 36 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | Kiely, E.; Ging, D.; Kitching, K.; Leane, M. (2022) 'Parents displaying family consumption in Ireland'. Families, Relationships and Societies, 11 (1). [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; Kiely, Elizabeth; Kitching, Karl; Leane, Maire (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). [DOI] | |
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, Debbie and Neary, Aoife (2019) 'Gender, Sexuality, and Bullying Special Issue Editorial'. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, . | |
2019 | Ging, Debbie (2019) 'Gender, Sexuality, and Irish Film'. COMPANION TO BRITISH AND IRISH CINEMA, . | |
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, . | |
2018 | Ging, D.; Garvey, S. (2018) '‘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, 20 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2017 | Ging, Debbie (2017) '‘Memes, Masculinity and Mancession: Love/Hate’s online metatexts’'. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW (ONLINE), 25 (1). | |
2019 | Ging, D. (2019) 'Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere'. Men and Masculinities, 22 . [Link] [DOI] | |
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] | |
2018 | Ross, K.; Boyle, K.; Carter, C.; Ging, D. (2018) 'Women, Men and News: It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it†'. Journalism Studies, 19 . [Link] [DOI] | |
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, 16 . [Link] [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 :*-*. |
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] |