Failed Intimacies with Dr Debbie Ging // Postdigital Intimacies
Channel: Postdigital Intimacies
Date: 15/04/2021

Blackpilled: Incels, evolutionary psychology and the failed intimacies of neoliberal capitalism

Dr Debbie Ging will be presenting her paper which locates key discourses which chart the successive failures of intimacy through which incels have evolved as a distinct ‘community’, from the social isolation that many non-conforming males experience, and the neolioberal management of neuroatypicality to the dysfunctional intimacies forged in the digital echo chambers of red pill and black pill ‘philosophy’.


Debbie Ging is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the School of Communications. Her research is concerned with gender and social media, focusing in particular on online misogyny, the manosphere, incels and the radicalization of young men into online male supremacy groups. Debbie is a co-author of the first government-commissioned report on the sexualisation and commercialisation of children in Ireland. Together with Prof. Eugenia Siapera, she has co-edited a special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Online Misogyny (2018) and an edited collection entitled Gender Hate Online: Understanding the New Anti-Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Debbie has also co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Bullying Prevention on Gender, Sexuality and Bullying with Dr. Aoife Neary in University of Limerick. She is Ireland Corresponding Editor of the journal Men and Masculinities. She is a member of the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre and of the Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) in DCU.