Hate Crime Research Group Webinar – Justifications of Misogynist Incels: Victimhood and Blame

On 22nd November 2024 by Mark Walters

Wednesday 5 March 2025, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm GMT, online (UK)

 

This hate crime research group webinar will focus on ‘Justifications of Misogynist Incels: Victimhood and Blame’ with Dr Lisa Sugiura, Associate Professor in Cybercrime and Gender, University of Portsmouth.

If you have any questions, please contact the chair of this webinar, Dr Irene Zempi (irene.zempi@ntu.ac.uk).

Biography: Lisa is an internationally recognised expert in online gender-based violence and technology-facilitated sexual violence and regularly appears on national and international media news outlets discussing these subjects. Her research projects, which include funding from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Home Office, involve the language of cybersexism, victims of computer misuse, the role of technology in domestic abuse, and extremist and misogynistic behaviours in manosphere and incel (involuntary celibate) communities. Lisa has published extensively in academic journals and magazines on topics including the online pharmaceutical trade, phishing, online research ethics and qualitative methodologies, rape culture, incels , and online misogyny. She is the author and co-editor of the books: Respectable deviance and purchasing medicine online: opportunities and risks for consumers Palgrave Macmillan, The incel rebellion: the rise of the manosphere and the virtual war against women Emerald publishing, and the Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology.

 

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