Con.Cel: Tracking the online contagion of Incel and male supremacist ideology
1 October 2021 - 30 September 2022
PI/s in 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ: Dr Lewys Brace
CI/s in 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ:
Research partners: Dr Debbie Ging (Dublin City University)
Funding awarded: £ 96,000
Sponsor(s): Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)
About the research
The Con.Cel project focuses on the InCel ideology, a misogynistic worldview whose proponents blame women for their lack of sexual activity, and the ?€?Incelosphere?€?, a loose conglomerate of online InCel communities spread across various digital platforms. Specifically, it seeks to map out the online ?€?InCelosphere?€? and, on that basis, track its dynamics of contagion along four key axes:
- Extremist contagion
- Online contagion
- Ideological contagion
- Geographical contagion