{"id":3235,"date":"2020-01-24T16:06:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:06:41","slug":"kaitlyn-regehr-discusses-incel-culture-in-new-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/24\/kaitlyn-regehr-discusses-incel-culture-in-new-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Regehr discusses Incel culture in New Statesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2147\/regehr-kaitlyn\">Dr Kaitlyn Regehr<\/a>, Lecturer in Media Studies in the School of Arts, was interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/uk\"><em>New Statesman<\/em> <\/a>earlier this month about men who are sharing their dating app history online in order to spread their misogynistic ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The online subculture of \u2018Incels\u2019 (the word being a portmanteau of \u2018involuntary celibate\u2019) promotes hatred, misogyny and racism, and has been linked to hate crimes and mass murders.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, Kaitlyn talks about the correlation between the increasing use of social media and the Incel community, and the reassurance when members share their dating app statistics: &#8216;[W]hat is the impact of scrolling through everyone having fun without you?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the <em>New Statesman<\/em> page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/science-tech\/social-media\/2020\/01\/how-she-ghosted-me-men-being-radicalised-tinder-data-0\">www.newstatesman.com\/science-tech\/social-media\/2020\/01\/how-she-ghosted-me-men-being-radicalised-tinder-data-0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Lecturer in Media Studies in the School of Arts, was interviewed by New Statesman earlier this month about men who are sharing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/01\/24\/kaitlyn-regehr-discusses-incel-culture-in-new-statesman\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168423,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}