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Debbie Ging

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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).

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)

Book

	Year	Publication
	2019	Ging, Debbie and Siapera, Eugenia (Eds) (2019) Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-feminism. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
	2013	Ging, Debbie (2013) Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema. : Palgrave Macmillan.
	2009	Ging, Debbie, Cronin, Michael and Kirby, Peadar (Eds.) (2009) Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques and Resources. : Manchester University Press.

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	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

	Year	Publication
	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
	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

	Year	Publication
	2017	Ging, Debbie (2017) Digital Violence symposium ‘The Politics of Digital Violence: Conceptual Paradoxes and Material Realities’ Angela Ruskin University, 04/11/2017-04/11/2017.
	2017	Ging, Debbie (2017) Gender Matters: Educating for Equality?’ Ethical Education Conference ‘¬¬¬Gender Equality in Education: 21st Century Challenges’ Malahide, Dublin, 24/11/2017-24/11/2017.
	2018	Ging, Debbie (2018) Portuguese Association for Women Studies (APEM), Online misogyny 'Digital gender hate: understanding the new anti-feminisms' Lisbon, Portugal, 22/06/2018-22/06/2018.
	2018	Ging, Debbie (2018) Gender and Me ‘#MeToo, Us and Them: Whither Gender Politics in a Digital, Neoliberal World Order?’ Plymouth Institute of Education and the Institute of Health and Communities (Plymouth University), 04/07/2018-04/07/2018.
	2018	Ging, Debbie (2018) Understanding New Rape Cultures ‘Rape culture in a neoliberal world order – something old, something new?’ UCD, Dublin, 14/09/2018-14/09/2018.
	2018	Ging, Debbie (2018) Mediated Masculinities: Power and Violence ‘Digital violence in the Manosphere: technology, affect, and the future of gender politics’ University of East Anglia, 18/09/2018-18/09/2018.
	2019	Ging, Debbie (2019) Console-ing Passions Neologising misogyny: Urban Dictionary’s folksonomies of sexual abuse Bournemouth University, 11/07/2019-13/07/2019.
	2019	Ging, Debbie (2019) EUPOP European Popular Culture Association 'Mainstreaming the Manosphere: Social Media and Circuits of Digital Hate’ University of Limerick, 16/07/2019-18/07/2019.
	2019	Debbie Ging (2019) Emerging technologies, social media and the politics of the algorithm Third annual conference of the Centre for Critical Media Literacy Urban Dictionary, algorithmic capitalism and the mainstreaming of misogyny Dublin, 18/10/2019-19/10/2019.
	2018	Ging, D., Savage, J.M. and O'Higgins Norman, J. (2018) Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference Taking the Temperature: Developing and Piloting an LGBT-Positive School Climate Evaluation Tool for Post-Primary Schools in Ireland Dublin, 18/05/2018-19/05/2018.
	2017	Ging D., and Siapera, E. (2017) Digital Violence Symposium The Politics of Digital Violence: Conceptual Paradoxes and Material Realities Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, .
	2016	Ging, Debbie (2016) ECREA 2016 6th European Communication Conference Thinstagramming and Meme Culture: a qualitative content analysis of pro-ana image sharing practices on Instagram Prague, 09/11/2016-12/11/2016.
	2015	Ging, Debbie (2015) 6th Psychoanalytic Film Festival Men and Masculinities in Cinema APPI/IFPP/Independent Colleges Dublin, 20/01/2015-30/01/2015.
	2016	Ging, Debbie (2016) Bullies, Buillied and Bystanders The 'toxic technocultures' of digital media: where bullying and the personalisation of politics overlap Dublin City University, 10/06/2016-10/06/2016.
	2016	Ging, Debbie (2016) Mediated Feminisms: Activism and Resistance to gender and sexual violence in the digital age The Manosphere's 'toxic technocultures': social media and the new communicative politics of men's rights UCL Institute of Education, 06/05/2016-06/05/2016.
	2016	Ging, Debbie (2016) IAMCR 2016 Memes, Masculinity and the Manosphere: Web 2.0 and the changing communicative politics of the men’s rights movement Leicester, 28/07/2016-28/07/2016.
	2015	Ging, Debbie (2015) Console-ing Passions #GamerGate, the Fine Young Capitalists Controversy and the ideological elasticity of online misogyny Dublin, 19/06/2015-22/06/2015.
	2014	Ging, Debbie and O’Higgins-Norman, James (2014) Sexualisation and Commercialisation of Children conference ‘It’s all just messing”: a study on girls and cyberbullying in Ireland’ University College Cork, 28/04/2014-29/04/2014.
	2014	Ging, Debbie and Nagle, Angela (2014) Self, Selves and Sexualities Conference 2014 'The democratisation of sex? #slanegirl, slut-shaming and online misogyny’ Dublin City University, 12/03/2014-15/03/2014.
	2014	Ging, Debbie (2014) Drama on Demand: Perspectives on Contemporary Television Fiction Love / Hate’s metatextual discourses’, paper presented at ‘Drama on Demand: Perspectives on Contemporary Television Fiction Maynooth University, 18/11/2014-18/11/2014.
	2014	Ging, Debbie and O’Higgins-Norman, James (2014) ECREA Facebook, gender and conflict online: teenage girls’ understandings and experiences of cyberbullying in an Irish second-level school Lisbon, Portugal, 12/11/2014-15/11/2014.
	2013	Ging, Debbie (2013) SUMMERCULTURE 2013 National & Transnational Cultural Flows & Place From Gaels to gangsters: changing representations of masculinity in Irish film and television NUI Maynooth, 30/06/2013-14/07/2013.
	2013	Ging, Debbie (2013) EUPOP 2013 - Second annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) What Richard and Michel Did: discourses on middle-class masculinity and violence in recent European popular culture Turku, Finland, 31/07/2013-02/08/2013.
	2013	Ging, Debbie (2013) FILM AND MEDIA 2013: THE PLEASURES OF THE SPECTACLE - The Third Annual London Film and Media Conference The Spectacle of Male Linguistic Anxiety in Recent Irish Cinema London, 27/06/2013-29/06/2013.
	2013	Ging, Debbie and O'Higigns-Norman, James (2013) IAMCR 2013: Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders Social media crisis? Girls’ understandings and experiences of cyberbullying in an Irish second-level school DCU, Dublin, 25/06/2013-29/06/2013.
	2013	O'Higgins Norman, James and Ging, Debbie (2013) Stalking, Cyber Space and Young People ‘Teenage Girls Understanding and Experiences of Cyberbullying’ University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 18/10/2013-18/10/2013.
	2012	Ging, Debbie (2012) Media Diversity in Theory and Practice: Symposium and Workshop Discussant on Media and Diversity in Europe: Recent Research symposium Dublin City University, Ireland, 02/02/2012-02/02/2012.
	2012	Ging, Debbie (2012) UCD School of English Seminar Series Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema UCD, Dublin, 21/11/2012-21/11/2012.
	2012	Ging, Debbie (2012) Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture 1990-2010 Changing Images of Masculinity? A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Irish-Mediated Advertising Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUI Galway, 23/09/2012-25/09/2012.
	2011	Ging, Debbie (2011) UCD Women's Studies Centre Public Seminar Series 'Sex Positive Feminism: libidinal liberation or sexual disempowerment?' UCD, Dublin, 24/02/2011-24/02/2011.
	2011	Ging, Debbie, Judge, Miriam and Morgan, Trish (2011) CESI Computer Education Society of Ireland, ‘ICT in Education - Changing Landscapes’ conference Using Someone Else's Shoes in the Classroom Portlaoise, Ireland, 05/02/2011-06/02/2011.
	2011	Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam (2011) Diverse conference ‘Piloting a Digital Game for Educating about Migration: Initial Feedback from the Classroom’ Dublin City University, Ireland, 28/06/2011-30/06/2011.
	2011	Ging, Debbie (2011) ‘Sex on the Screen’ Dublin University Gender Equality Society seminar TCD, Dublin, 18/10/2011-18/10/2011.
	2011	Ging, Debbie (2011) Ubuntu Network, Dialogue Day 5: Media Stories and Messages – Critical Media Literacy for Development Education 'Using film and media as pedagogical tools in education' NCAD, Dublin, 28/02/2011-28/02/2011.
	2011	Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam (2011) Games, Learning and Society conference 2011 ‘Developing and Piloting a Digital Game for Educating about Migration' Madison Wisconsin, US, 15/06/2011-17/06/2011.
	2010	Ging, Debbie and Flynn, Roddy (2010) ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) ‘Written on the Skin: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Irish-Mediated Advertising's Treatment of Male and Female Ageing’ Hamburg, Germany, 12/10/2010-15/10/2010.
	2010	Ging, Debbie (2010) Irish Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Conference Boys on Film: Irish Cinema's Challenge to Myths of Irish Manhood since the 1970s Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University, Belfast, 26/02/2010-27/02/2010.
	2010	Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam (2010) CESI Computer Education Society of Ireland, Creative Technology in Challenging Times ‘Developing a 'serious game' for educating about migration and interculturalism in Ireland’ Portlaoise, Ireland, 05/02/2010-06/02/2010.
	2010	Ging, Debbie (2010) Self, Selves and Sexualities Conference Sex-positive Feminism: Redemptive Liberation or Self Disempowerment? Dublin City University, 19/03/2010-20/03/2010.
	2010	Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam (2010) Migrant Lives: Past, Present and Future Mapping the pedagogical, technical, philosophical and creative processes involved in the development of a prototype game on migration Dublin City University, 08/04/2010-08/04/2010.
	2010	Ging, D., Cronin, Michael and O’Donnell, Katherine (2010) IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures) ‘Into the future, into the past: sexuality, history and Irish literary and cultural studies’ (joint panel presentation) NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 26/07/2010-30/07/2010.
	2010	Ging, Debbie (2010) Visualising Ireland: Visualising Gender symposium ‘Transitional spaces? A study of gender representations in Irish-mediated advertising’ Humanities Research Institute UCD, 05/06/2010-06/06/2010.
	2009	Ging, Debbie (2009) British Sociological Association, Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference: 'Gender, Ageing and the Body ' Written on the Skin? A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Irish-Mediated Advertising's Treatment of Male and Female Ageing British Library Conference Centre, London, 20/07/2009-20/07/2009.
	2008	Ging, Debbie (2008) NUIM Centre for Media Studies Lecture Series 2008 All-Consuming Images: Consumerism, Media Commercialisation and the Reconstruction of Gender in Contemporary Ireland NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 05/03/2008-05/03/2008.
	2008	Ging, Debbie, Titley, Gavan and Lentin, Alanna (2008) 1968: Impact and Implications. BSA Theory Study Group Conference in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research All-consuming images: postfeminisms reconstruction of gender identities and relations, as part of panel entitled Subverting Radicality Birkbeck, University of London, 03/07/2008-04/07/2008.
	2008	Ging, Debbie and Tuite, Declan (2008) ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association,2nd European Communication Conference) Someone Elses Shoes: Developing a serious game for educating about immigration and cultural education in Ireland Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, 25/11/2008-28/11/2008.
	2007	Ging, Debbie (2007) IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) 50th Anniversary conference New Lads or Protest Masculinities?: An Audience Study of the Meanings of Male Marginalisation in Contemporary Irish Film Paris, France, 23/07/2007-25/07/2007.
	2007	Ging, Debbie (2007) Mediating New Ireland: 3rd annual conference of the Irish Media Research Network All-Consuming Images: New Gender Formations in Post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland, 15/06/2007-15/06/2007.
	2005	Ging, Debbie (2005) Double Vision: Liminal Irish Identities Invisible Voices, Inaudible Images: the Representation / Articulation of Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema UCD, Dublin, 18/03/2005-20/03/2005.
	2005	Ging, Debbie (2005) Gender and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, 18th annual conference of the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) All the Rage: Postfeminism, Girl Power and Female Violence in Contemporary Mass Media University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 09/09/2005-11/09/2005.
	2005	Ging, Debbie (2005) Colloquium on Globalization, Culture and Civil Society Globalization and the Representation of Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema DIT Dundalk, 08/02/2005-08/02/2005.
	2005	Ging, Debbie (2005) Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2005 Exploring Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema: An Audience Perspective (part of joint panel presentation entitled 'Gender in Irish Cinema: A Comparative Framework for Analysis' Institute of Education, London, 31/03/2005-03/04/2005.
	2004	Ging, Debbie (2004) Boys, Men and Masculinities Conference Masculinity and the Media: A Study of Male Transition Year Students in Ireland Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin, 02/04/2004-02/04/2004.
	2003	Ging, Debbie and Malcolm, Jackie (2003) 'What's the Culture in Multiculturalism? What's the Difference of Identities?' 'Media Models of Interculturalism in Ireland' University of Aarhus, Denmark, 22/05/2003-24/05/2003.
	2002	Ging, Debbie (2002) Spanish Cinema Lecture Series Representations of Masculinity in the films of Bigas Luna Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 30/04/2002-30/04/2002.
	2002	Ging, Debbie, Malcolm, Jackie and Connolly, Maeve (2002) Forum on Media and Interculturalism Introduction: Working Group on Media and Interculturalism Dublin City University, 21/03/2002-22/03/2002.
	2000	Ging, Debbie (2000) Cultures in Transition (Joint Faculty of Humanities Interdisciplinary Conference) Ireland and its Others: Racism, Modernity and Multiculturalism in Cinema Dublin City University, 18/02/2000-19/02/2000.
	1998	Ging, Debbie (1998) Celebrate Eisenstein The Politics of Sound and Image: Eisenstein, Artifice and Acoustic Montage in Contemporary Feminist Cinema UCD, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, 02/12/1998-05/12/1998.

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2024	Baker, C., Ging, D. and Brandt Andreasen, M. (2024) Recommending Toxicity: the role of recommender algorithms on TikTok and YouTube Shorts in promoting male supremacist influencers. Anti-Bullying Centre, .
	2023	Kirsty Park; Debbie Ging; Shane Murphy; Cian McGrath (2023) The Impact of the Use of Social Media on Women and Girls. European Union, .
	2022	Debbie Ging and Ricardo Castellini da Silva (2022) Young People’s Experiences of Sexual and Gender-based Harassment and Abuse During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Ireland: Incidence, Intervention and Recommendations. Anti-Bullying Centre, .
	2015	Kiely, Elizabeth, Ging, Debbie, Kitching, Karl and Leane, Máire (2015) The Sexualisation and Commercialisation of Children in Ireland: an exploratory study. Department of Children and Youth Affairs, .
	2009	Flynn, Roddy and Ging, Debbie (2009) Representations Of People With Disability In Irish Broadcast Media. National Disability Authority / Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, .
	2008	Ging, Debbie and Flynn, Roddy (2008) Background paper on the Stereotyping of Women in Advertising in Irish Media. The Equality Authority, .

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	2016	Ging, D (2016) Queen of Ireland (Conor Horgan 2015). BARCELONA: ED

Other Publication

	Year	Publication
	2018	Ging, D.; Siapera, E. (2018) Special issue on online misogyny. [Link] [DOI]

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	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, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, .
	2012	Ging, Debbie and Canning, Laura (2012) 'From Rural Electrification to Rural Pornification: Sensation’s Poetics of Dehumanisation' http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/Issue7/FilmReviews_7/IrishFilm&TV_7.htm .
	2010	Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam (2010) 'Someone Else's Shoes: Developing a 'serious game' for educating about migration and cultural integration in Ireland' .
	2010	Ging, Debbie (2010) ''Padded bras will never empower young girls'' .
	2009	Flynn, Roddy and Ging, Debbie (2009) 'Representations Of People With Disability In Irish Broadcast Media' .
	2007	Ging, Debbie (2007) 'Society is complicit in turning girls into sex objects ' .
	2007	Ging, Debbie (2007) 'The Celtic Chick-flick: How About You (2007) and PS I Love You I (2007)' .
	2007	Ging, D., Lawless, K., Pearson-Evans, A., Mulcahy, C. and Rogers, P (2007) 'DCU Finglas for Diversity Project Report: First steps in community-university partnership: lessons from the Dublin City University Finglas for Diversity initiative' .
	2006	Ging, Debbie (2006) 'Review of Capital Letters, Irish Cinema 2006: Year in Review ' 2 .
	2006	Ging, Debbie (2006) 'Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema, Irish Cinema 2005: Year in Review' 1 .
	2002	Ging, D., Connolly, M. and Malcolm, J. (2002) 'Report on the Forum on Media and Interculturalism, Dublin City University, 21st and 22nd March, 2002. ' .
	2001	Ging, Debbie (2001) 'All About Adam? Postfeminist apathy in the Irish film industry' Issue 44 :50-51.
	2001	Ging, Debbie (2001) 'Men Behaving Predictably? The new 'masculinity crisis' films' Issue 44 :50-51.
	2000	Ging, Debbie (2000) 'Partners in Crime. Interview with writer-director Fintan Connolly and producer Fiona Bergin' Issue 41 :26-28.
	1999	Ging, Debbie (1999) 'Some Prefer Cake: homosexual identities in contemporary cinema' Issue 37 :58-59.

Employment

Employer	Position	From / To
Tallaght Institute of Technology	Lecturer	- 30/12/1998
Dublin City University	Lecturer	30/12/1999 -
Dublin Institute of Technology	Lecturer	- 30/12/1998
Espace Vidéo Européen (MEDIA I)	Conference Coordinator	- 31/10/1995

Education

Institution	Qualification	Subject
Dublin City University	Ph.D.	Irish film studies / audience research
Dublin City University	B.A.	Languages (translation and interpreting)
Dublin City University	M.A.	Film and Television Studies

Languages

Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
Irish	Basic	Basic	Basic
German	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent
French	Fluent	Functional	Functional
Spanish	Functional	Basic	Functional

Other Activities

	Description

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.

Research Projects

Title	Role	Start date	End date
Parents, Cyberbullying and Technology: Training for future experts in bullying prevention and intervention	DCU PI	01/09/2021	31/01/2022
Developing and Piloting an Online Sexual Abuse Guideline and Workshop for Under-18s in London, Toronto and Dublin, 2020 - 2021	Ireland PI	01/01/2021	30/06/2022
Anti-women online movements: understanding pathways and patterns of participation	Ireland PI	01/02/2022	30/01/2025
Gender Equality and Gaming	DCU PI	01/09/2020	31/08/2022
Taking the Temperature: Schools Inclusivity Climate Survey	DCU PI	02/12/2016	01/12/2017

Internal Collaborators

	Type	Name	Company	Role
	Internal	Dr. James O'Higgins Norman	National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre	Academic

External Collaborators

Type	Name	Company	Role
External	Dr. Stephane Baele	University of Exeter	Academic
External	Dr. Joshua Roose	Deakin University, Melbourne	Academic
External	Dr. Michael Flood	Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane	Academic
External	Emma Murphy	The Turning Institute	Industry
External	Prof. Karen Ross	Northumbria University	Academic
External	Prof. Jessica Ringrose	UCL, Institute of Education	Academic
External	Sandra Irwin-Gowran	GLEN (Gay and Lesbian Equality Network)	Academic

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2020	Film Theory and History	CM524
2022	Gender and Sexuality in Digital Culture	CM587
2022	Film, History and Theory	CM286
2020	Television Drama	CM581
2022	Television Drama	CM3001
2022	Gender and Sexuality in Digital Culture	CM580