- Mar162023GNET Team
Unpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition
in InsightsIntroduction In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…
- Mar152023Emilia Lounela
Discourses of Violence in Incel Online Discussions After the Plymouth Shooting
in InsightsIntroduction In August 2021, a young man attacked and killed his mother in Plymouth, UK. He then left his home,…
- Mar142023Sarah Daly
Understanding Incels’ Online Behaviour and Perceptions of Hateful Content
in InsightsIntroduction Recent years have seen an increase in awareness and concern about incels, or involuntarily celibate men, particularly because of…
- Mar132023Rutger Sjoerts
Incel PR: The Rebranding of the Incel Community & the Role of Media and Academia
in InsightsCertain usernames and names of forums have been removed to avoid amplifying their voices and platforms. In August 2021, Jake…
- Jan122023Esli Chan
Offline and Online Gender-Based Violence: Extremism Risk Assessment Tools and the Rise of the Incel Rebellion
in InsightsIntroduction In recent years, there have been increasing instances of online hate and gender-based violence against women. Reports of involuntary…
- Dec032022Gurpreet Kaur
Incel Extremism in India: A View from the Global South
This Insight was originally posted on 25 August 2022, and is being reposted as part of GNET’s Gender and Online…
- Nov092022Brenna Helm
The Role of Perceived Injustice and Need for Esteem on Incel Membership Online
in InsightsIntroduction Incels, or involuntary celibates, is an increasingly popular subculture of men nestled within the online misogynist and male supremacist…
- Aug232022Gurpreet Kaur
Incel Extremism in India: A View from the Global South
in InsightsContent warning: this Insight contains descriptions of sexual violence. Introduction Over the years, violent crimes against women have been reported…
- Aug152022Maeve Park
Understanding The Incel Experience Online
in InsightsIncel, short for ‘involuntarily celibate’, is self-identification used exclusively by cis-gender, straight males who congregate exclusively in online spaces, and…
- Jul132022Simon Purdue
Ideological Nihilism and Aesthetic Violence: Mass Shooters and Online Antisocial Subcultures
in InsightsThe Highland Park shooter’s online footprint has seen a lot of scrutiny in the week since his attack, and rightly…
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