Debbie Ging is Professor of Digital Media and Gender in the School of Communications at Dublin City University and Director of the DCU 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. Debbie’s research also addresses youth experiences of gender-based and sexual abuse online and educational interventions to tackle this issue. She is co-editor of Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Antifeminsm (Routledge, 2019) and has published widely on the manosphere, incels and online misogyny. 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. Phone: +353-1-7007729 Address: School of Communications
Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland
This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex
relationships ... more This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have been transformed by the technological affordances of new digital platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural and gender-political factors. This collection of work is intended to lend focus and cohesion to a growing body of research in this area; to map, contextualise and take stock of current frameworks, making scholars aware of one another’s work and methodologies, and hopefully forging new interdisciplinary collaborations and directions for future work. Crucially, we move beyond the Anglophone world, to include perspectives from countries which have different gender- political and technological landscapes. In addition to mapping the new misogyny, several contributions also address digital feminist responses, evaluating their successes, limitations and impact on the shape of digital gender politics in future.
In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in polit... more In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in politics, business and the law but their words and actions rarely make the front page. In this article, we draw on data collected as part of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project and focus on England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Since the first GMMP in 1995, there has been a slow but steady rise in the proportion of women who feature, report or present the news (now at 24 per cent), but that increase is a mere seven per cent over twenty years. Not only is there a problem with visibility but our data also suggest that when women are present, their contributions are often confined to the realm of the private as they speak as citizens rather than experts and in stories about health but not politics. Just over a third of the media professionals we coded were women and older women are almost entirely missing from the media scene. Citizens and democracy more generally are poorly served by a news media which privileges men’s voices, actions and views over the other 51 per cent of the population: we surely deserve better.
Keywords Gender; Global Media Monitoring Project; journalism; media monitoring; news; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis.
Ging Debbie the Lads from New Ireland a Textual and Audience Analysis of Marginalised Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Film Phd Thesis Dublin City University, 2006
Estudios Irlandeses Journal of Irish Studies, 2006
164 Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema Debbie Ging In the mid-to late-1990s, Irish Cinema u... more 164 Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema Debbie Ging In the mid-to late-1990s, Irish Cinema underwent a radical shift, which entailed, among other significant features, a thematic trajectory from the rural to the urban, from the historical to the contemporary and from the local to ...
Ging Debbie and Malcolm Jackie Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in Lreland Textual Strategies at Work in the Media Landscape in Titley Gavin Resituating Culture Council of Europe Pp 125 136 Isbn 9287153965, 2004
... Debbie Ging and Jackie Malcolm ... As Gavan Titley suggests, a new temporal orthodoxy of pre... more ... Debbie Ging and Jackie Malcolm ... As Gavan Titley suggests, a new temporal orthodoxy of pre-and post-1990s Ireland4 has consolidated a myth of homogeneity so central to the ideology of the nation state that it denies the ethnic and religious diversity that has existed in ...
This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex
relationships ... more This special issue seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have been transformed by the technological affordances of new digital platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural and gender-political factors. This collection of work is intended to lend focus and cohesion to a growing body of research in this area; to map, contextualise and take stock of current frameworks, making scholars aware of one another’s work and methodologies, and hopefully forging new interdisciplinary collaborations and directions for future work. Crucially, we move beyond the Anglophone world, to include perspectives from countries which have different gender- political and technological landscapes. In addition to mapping the new misogyny, several contributions also address digital feminist responses, evaluating their successes, limitations and impact on the shape of digital gender politics in future.
In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in polit... more In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in politics, business and the law but their words and actions rarely make the front page. In this article, we draw on data collected as part of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project and focus on England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Since the first GMMP in 1995, there has been a slow but steady rise in the proportion of women who feature, report or present the news (now at 24 per cent), but that increase is a mere seven per cent over twenty years. Not only is there a problem with visibility but our data also suggest that when women are present, their contributions are often confined to the realm of the private as they speak as citizens rather than experts and in stories about health but not politics. Just over a third of the media professionals we coded were women and older women are almost entirely missing from the media scene. Citizens and democracy more generally are poorly served by a news media which privileges men’s voices, actions and views over the other 51 per cent of the population: we surely deserve better.
Keywords Gender; Global Media Monitoring Project; journalism; media monitoring; news; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis.
Ging Debbie the Lads from New Ireland a Textual and Audience Analysis of Marginalised Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Film Phd Thesis Dublin City University, 2006
Estudios Irlandeses Journal of Irish Studies, 2006
164 Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema Debbie Ging In the mid-to late-1990s, Irish Cinema u... more 164 Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema Debbie Ging In the mid-to late-1990s, Irish Cinema underwent a radical shift, which entailed, among other significant features, a thematic trajectory from the rural to the urban, from the historical to the contemporary and from the local to ...
Ging Debbie and Malcolm Jackie Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in Lreland Textual Strategies at Work in the Media Landscape in Titley Gavin Resituating Culture Council of Europe Pp 125 136 Isbn 9287153965, 2004
... Debbie Ging and Jackie Malcolm ... As Gavan Titley suggests, a new temporal orthodoxy of pre... more ... Debbie Ging and Jackie Malcolm ... As Gavan Titley suggests, a new temporal orthodoxy of pre-and post-1990s Ireland4 has consolidated a myth of homogeneity so central to the ideology of the nation state that it denies the ethnic and religious diversity that has existed in ...
Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism, 2019
Gender Hate Online addresses the dynamic nature of misogyny: how it travels, what technological a... more Gender Hate Online addresses the dynamic nature of misogyny: how it travels, what technological and cultural affordances support or obstruct this and what impact reappropriated expressions of misogyny have in other cultures. It adds significantly to an emergent body of scholarship on this topic by bringing together a variety of theoretical approaches, while also including reflections on the past, present, and future of feminism and its interconnections with technologies and media. It also addresses the fact that most work on this area has been focused on the Global North, by including perspectives from Pakistan, India and Russia as well as intersectional and transcultural analyses. Finally, it addresses ways in which women fight back and reclaim online spaces, offering practical applications as well as critical analyses.
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relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny.
It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have
been transformed by the technological affordances of new digital
platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of
discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what
extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural
and gender-political factors. This collection of work is intended to
lend focus and cohesion to a growing body of research in this area;
to map, contextualise and take stock of current frameworks, making
scholars aware of one another’s work and methodologies, and
hopefully forging new interdisciplinary collaborations and directions
for future work. Crucially, we move beyond the Anglophone world,
to include perspectives from countries which have different gender-
political and technological landscapes. In addition to mapping the
new misogyny, several contributions also address digital feminist
responses, evaluating their successes, limitations and impact on the
shape of digital gender politics in future.
Keywords
Gender; Global Media Monitoring Project; journalism; media monitoring; news; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis.
relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny.
It asks how the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses have
been transformed by the technological affordances of new digital
platforms, and whether they are borne of the same types of
discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism, or to what
extent they might articulate a different constellation of social, cultural
and gender-political factors. This collection of work is intended to
lend focus and cohesion to a growing body of research in this area;
to map, contextualise and take stock of current frameworks, making
scholars aware of one another’s work and methodologies, and
hopefully forging new interdisciplinary collaborations and directions
for future work. Crucially, we move beyond the Anglophone world,
to include perspectives from countries which have different gender-
political and technological landscapes. In addition to mapping the
new misogyny, several contributions also address digital feminist
responses, evaluating their successes, limitations and impact on the
shape of digital gender politics in future.
Keywords
Gender; Global Media Monitoring Project; journalism; media monitoring; news; qualitative analysis; quantitative analysis.