Professor Debbie Ging (DCU) will deliver a research paper

1 Mar 2026

Debbie Ging, 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, will be joining us in person at UCC on Thursday March 5 in the Shtepps at 4.15PM. All are welcome. Professor Ging's talk, "NoFappers, Tradwives, and Fitfluencers: the new ideological entrepreneurs of the manosphere", will zoom in on the manosphere; a diverse ecosystem of online anti-feminist and male supremacist groups that has been attracting scholarly attention for well over 10 years, but has only recently entered public debates. More recently, a constellation of economic, technological and socio-cultural factors has significantly transformed the size, reach and communicative politics of this online ecosystem, resulting in four key developments which distinguish it from the earlier manosphere; namely migrations to new platforms, mainstreaming and monetization, ideological and ethnic diversification, and overlap with other extreme ideologies, most of which are driven by recommender algorithms.