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”.
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Catherine R. Baker; Andrew Chadwick (2022) 'Corrupted Infrastructures of Meaning: Post-truth Identities Online' In: The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. United Kingdom : Routledge. [Link] https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003004431 |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Baker, C. R., Ging, D., & Brandt Andreasen, M (2024) Recommending Toxicity: the role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers. DCU Anti-Bullying Centre, . [Link] |
Research Interests
Research interests: Gender, misogyny, the manosphere, the far-right, anti-gender movements, digital platforms, algorithmic politics, disinformation, pseudoscience, digital and qualitative methodologies