Lisa Sugiura
Biographic Data
| ID | 288753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Sugiura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Sugiura |
| SIGNATURE | SUGIURA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2167-3613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Researching Incels: A Critical Feminist Intervention
As the world wakes up to the incel problem following Netflix's Adolescence, many examples of research into incels over the past decade have been poorly conducted. Researching Incels is a crucial intervention into problematic incel research – calling for a new framework for rigorous, responsible research to inform policy on the incel crisis. A critical overview on poor research examples using the primary case study of a report commissioned by the …
Reflective Fortification: A Conceptual Cybersecurity Training Framework for Sustained Resilience to Persuasion-Based Cybercrimes
Framing misogyny in the metaverse: Theorising incel communities in virtual reality (VR) environments
This research note provides a theoretical exploration of how misogynist “incel” (involuntary celibate) communities might adapt to and exploit developing technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR) and the emerging metaverse. Drawing on sociologist Erving Goffman’s concept of frame analysis, we examine how immersive technologies could transform incel activity, identity construction, and modes of interaction. After reviewing the current literat…
Digital Subcultural Diffusion Theory: Rebranding the incel ideology through Looksmaxxing, Sub5s and the PSL scale
The rise of the incel (involuntary celibate) subculture has garnered significant academic, policy, and media scrutiny in recent years. However, critical gaps persist in understanding how misogynist incel ideology permeates mainstream digital spaces. This paper contributes to our understanding of online radicalisation and dissemination of digital subcultural groups and extremist ideologies through the development of Digital Subcultural Diffusion T…
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses
Methods of domestic abuse are progressively incorporating computer misuse and other related online offences and digital tools, escalating opportunities for perpetrators to monitor, threaten and humiliate their victims. Drawing on empirical research involving media case study analysis, a technology review and interviews undertaken with 21 professionals and service providers supporting domestic abuse victims, this article outlines the context in En…
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective
The reform of the Crime Survey of England and Wales (a national victim survey) has exposed a very high number of individuals who fall victim to computer misuse cybercrimes such as hacking, computer viruses and ransomware. These crimes receive very little attention from the criminal justice system and very few are brought to justice, partly because of the nature of them (global crimes), but also because of a lack of capability among the police. Th…
From feeling like rape to a minor inconvenience: Victims’ accounts of the impact of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women
Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement, parts of which have culminated into the contemporary 'manosphere.' Consisting of online communities that ascribe to misogynistic ideologies, which objectify, disparage, and dehumanise women, the manosphere also houses those who identify as involuntary celibate (incel).\nDrawing on ethnographic research and interviews, …
I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”: How Incels and Mainstream Pornography Speak the Same Extreme Language of Misogyny
This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: A loophole in ethics guidelines
Direct contacts with research participants in online ethnography are an important tool to better understand complex social dynamics in cyberspace. The current ethical approaches guiding academic research, however, can be problematic in this regard, creating unintended tensions leading to potential research biases as well as safety and wellbeing issues for researchers working on controversial and polarized topics. The onus, we argue, ends up being…
Caught in a Lie: The Rise and Fall of a Respectable Deviant
In this study we draw on the concept of respectable deviance to understand the journey into deviance – from her rise as an alternative health expert through to her public disgrace – of Belle Gibson, a young Australian blogger, app publisher and alternative medicine advocate who falsely claimed to have cured cancer without reverting to science-based medicine. Through the rigorous analysis of a series of media and documentary sources where Ms Gibso…
Ethical challenges in online research: Public/private perceptions
With its wealth of readily and often publicly available information about Web users’ lives, the Web has created new opportunities for conducting online research. Although digital data are easily accessible, ethical guidelines are inconsistent about how researchers should use them. Some academics claim that traditional ethical principles are sufficient and applicable to online research. However, the Web poses new challenges that compel researchers…
Live methods
Digital media ethics. Digital media and society series
I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”: How Incels and Mainstream Pornography Speak the Same Extreme Language of Misogyny
This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: A loophole in ethics guidelines
Direct contacts with research participants in online ethnography are an important tool to better understand complex social dynamics in cyberspace. The current ethical approaches guiding academic research, however, can be problematic in this regard, creating unintended tensions leading to potential research biases as well as safety and wellbeing issues for researchers working on controversial and polarized topics. The onus, we argue, ends up being…
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective
The reform of the Crime Survey of England and Wales (a national victim survey) has exposed a very high number of individuals who fall victim to computer misuse cybercrimes such as hacking, computer viruses and ransomware. These crimes receive very little attention from the criminal justice system and very few are brought to justice, partly because of the nature of them (global crimes), but also because of a lack of capability among the police. Th…
Caught in a Lie: The Rise and Fall of a Respectable Deviant
In this study we draw on the concept of respectable deviance to understand the journey into deviance – from her rise as an alternative health expert through to her public disgrace – of Belle Gibson, a young Australian blogger, app publisher and alternative medicine advocate who falsely claimed to have cured cancer without reverting to science-based medicine. Through the rigorous analysis of a series of media and documentary sources where Ms Gibso…
Live methods
Digital media ethics. Digital media and society series
Ethical challenges in online research: Public/private perceptions
With its wealth of readily and often publicly available information about Web users’ lives, the Web has created new opportunities for conducting online research. Although digital data are easily accessible, ethical guidelines are inconsistent about how researchers should use them. Some academics claim that traditional ethical principles are sufficient and applicable to online research. However, the Web poses new challenges that compel researchers…
Caught in a Lie: The Rise and Fall of a Respectable Deviant
In this study we draw on the concept of respectable deviance to understand the journey into deviance – from her rise as an alternative health expert through to her public disgrace – of Belle Gibson, a young Australian blogger, app publisher and alternative medicine advocate who falsely claimed to have cured cancer without reverting to science-based medicine. Through the rigorous analysis of a series of media and documentary sources where Ms Gibso…
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: A loophole in ethics guidelines
Direct contacts with research participants in online ethnography are an important tool to better understand complex social dynamics in cyberspace. The current ethical approaches guiding academic research, however, can be problematic in this regard, creating unintended tensions leading to potential research biases as well as safety and wellbeing issues for researchers working on controversial and polarized topics. The onus, we argue, ends up being…
From feeling like rape to a minor inconvenience: Victims’ accounts of the impact of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom
The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women
Emerging alongside the progression of women's rights in the twenty-first century is the development of the men's rights movement, parts of which have culminated into the contemporary 'manosphere.' Consisting of online communities that ascribe to misogynistic ideologies, which objectify, disparage, and dehumanise women, the manosphere also houses those who identify as involuntary celibate (incel).\nDrawing on ethnographic research and interviews, …
I Don’t Hate All Women, Just Those Stuck-Up Bitches”: How Incels and Mainstream Pornography Speak the Same Extreme Language of Misogyny
This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography and that of Incels. In doing so, it demonstrates how both pornography and Incels are different manife…
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective
The reform of the Crime Survey of England and Wales (a national victim survey) has exposed a very high number of individuals who fall victim to computer misuse cybercrimes such as hacking, computer viruses and ransomware. These crimes receive very little attention from the criminal justice system and very few are brought to justice, partly because of the nature of them (global crimes), but also because of a lack of capability among the police. Th…
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses
Methods of domestic abuse are progressively incorporating computer misuse and other related online offences and digital tools, escalating opportunities for perpetrators to monitor, threaten and humiliate their victims. Drawing on empirical research involving media case study analysis, a technology review and interviews undertaken with 21 professionals and service providers supporting domestic abuse victims, this article outlines the context in En…
Framing misogyny in the metaverse: Theorising incel communities in virtual reality (VR) environments
This research note provides a theoretical exploration of how misogynist “incel” (involuntary celibate) communities might adapt to and exploit developing technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR) and the emerging metaverse. Drawing on sociologist Erving Goffman’s concept of frame analysis, we examine how immersive technologies could transform incel activity, identity construction, and modes of interaction. After reviewing the current literat…
Digital Subcultural Diffusion Theory: Rebranding the incel ideology through Looksmaxxing, Sub5s and the PSL scale
The rise of the incel (involuntary celibate) subculture has garnered significant academic, policy, and media scrutiny in recent years. However, critical gaps persist in understanding how misogynist incel ideology permeates mainstream digital spaces. This paper contributes to our understanding of online radicalisation and dissemination of digital subcultural groups and extremist ideologies through the development of Digital Subcultural Diffusion T…
Researching Incels: A Critical Feminist Intervention
As the world wakes up to the incel problem following Netflix's Adolescence, many examples of research into incels over the past decade have been poorly conducted. Researching Incels is a crucial intervention into problematic incel research – calling for a new framework for rigorous, responsible research to inform policy on the incel crisis. A critical overview on poor research examples using the primary case study of a report commissioned by the …
Reflective Fortification: A Conceptual Cybersecurity Training Framework for Sustained Resilience to Persuasion-Based Cybercrimes
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (3 works)