Debbie Ging

Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications and Director of the Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities. 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 and is a member of the Editorial Boards of New Media and Society and Feminist Media Studies.

PhDs currently supervising:

- Rodica Alliman (with Iker Erdocia): The French and Romanian Far Right on You Tube: a Comparative Multimodal Analysis - Pragyaa Chandel (with Colleen Murrell): Women journalists and online abuse and harassment: psycho-emotional toll and its repercussions on journalism in India - Benjamin Foley: Improving Digital Sexual Literacy in LGBTQ+ Youth - Deniz Celikoglu: Parents’ experiences of their children’s involvement in the manosphere - Nhung Dinh (with Dónal Mulligan): Social Media for Civic Engagement: A Media Literacy approach - Simon Keating (with Declan Fahy + Mark O'Brien): Megaspectacle: A content analysis of sensationalised television news - Stephen Desmond: The films of Pedro Almodovar: identity, camp and the carnivalesque

PhDs graduated:
- Shane Murphy: Investigating the Incel phenomenon through the lens of radicalization
- 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
- 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):Governing Hate Speech: Facebook and the regulation of hateful content - 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 movement - Ingrid Lewis: The representation of women in European holocaust films: perpetrators, victims and resister - Manuela Ascari: A discourse analysis of interactions from an online pro-anorexia forum (co-supervised, MA by research)