📢CIRAF Seminar Announcement📢25th March 12pm-1:30pm 💻 Christian Nationalism in Online and Offline Contemporary Far-Right Politics - with Andy Williams (Cardiff University) and Kate Barber (University of Reading). Free and online but registration is required www.eventbrite.com/e/christian-...
PowerPoint slide with the title 'the manosphere, language and violence against women and girls' by Jessica Aiston
Today I am speaking at NHS Education for Scotland 'Sexual Offences: Working Together Best Practice Update' conference. An important event bringing together professionals and researchers in the field of gender-based violence to share best practice and updates on new research and policy
🔈New Publication Alert🔈I Was Delighted to Contribute the Chapter on Extremism to the IPSA Companion to Political Science: A Practical Introduction to the 200 Most Important Concepts and Work with the Wonderful Editors 😍 Check Out the Volume it is AMAZING 👇
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Call For Papers:
Conspiracy Theories and Pseudolaw
Conference
📅 Friday 19 June 2026
📍 Lincoln's Inns Fields, Queen Mary, University of London
tinyurl.com/5bwhur6v
Please email your submission (max 300 words) to k.leader@qmul.ac.uk by 28 February 2026.
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On 12 February, I'm (virtually) returning to @aifl.bsky.social! In this talk, I will explain why I think that legal and magical discourses are functionally identical and how approaching the analysis of legal texts with their magical qualities in mind will benefit researchers. Tickets below:
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Happy to share that my chapter
“Revenge porn: a new form of online gender-based violence discourse. A case study”
has just been published in Discourse Approaches to Gender-Based Violence 🎉
(De Gruyter Mouton)
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🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Really looking forward to reading Emily Powell's (@empowell.bsky.social) important new paper in Applied Corpus Linguistics. She examines how perpetrators of mass harm actively construct future attackers as an audience in their manifestos. Details here 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
⭐ Publication day! ⭐
New paper exploring what corpus linguistics can offer in terms of combating online fraud groups and activities. In a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics - Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Tackling Online Crime.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
Hate Crime is an Acute Problem in England & Wales Yet There's Still no National Plan to Tackle It. I’ve Joined Others Across Academia/ Civil Society Calling on the Government to Act Now and Deliver a New Hate Crime Action Plan. Read the Open Letter Here: tinyurl.com/kx89yxuv
Based on definitions others have offered and a review of works commonly held to belong to the field, I propose that "forensic linguistics" is best described as "that set of linguistic studies which either examine legal data or examine data for explicitly legal purposes." 2/5
Out now (and open access!) in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Forensic Linguistics"
This article is my attempt to get a handle on the perennial problem of describing forensic linguistics as a coherent field. 1/5
rdcu.be/eJoJP
Was very happy to be invited on BBC Word of Mouth to discuss my research on the manosphere and language. If you missed the live broadcast on Sunday, it's available wherever you get your podcasts. pca.st/episode/5ce9...
Thought provoking article by @katebarber.bsky.social about legal cynicism in Men's Rights discourses. Well worth a read if you are researching/interested in the neutralisation of past and future harm.
@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts.
🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence.
🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text.
🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🤓Interested in how #affordances mediate discourse?
📚Most of our articles explore that.
🔎In this thread we highlight some of the articles that have analysed the role of #hyperlinks in different kind of outlets.
More ⏬⏬
Check out the full special issue! We're in excellent company @mathewgillings.bsky.social @katebarber.bsky.social @danaroemling.bsky.social @timgrant123.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online
🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself.
We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson
theconversation.com/how-australi...
🚨New article published!
🟦 @katebarber.bsky.social explores hyperlinks in blog posts by extremist right-wing men.
🔷Drawing on positioning strategies, the legitimising function of anchor text is studied.
🔷Non-transparent anchor text perpetuates rape culture.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I have a rape case. Offence in April 2022. Reported within days. Charged Oct 2023. Trial listed July 2024. Put back to Oct 2024. No court available so put back to today. At court today, there's no court available AGAIN. FOURTH trial date now June 2026 - more than four years after the incident!!
My monograph 'Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, Argumentation' is now available for purchase as an ebook with John Benjamins, though you will need to pre-order for a physical copy.
benjamins.com/catalog/daps...
The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content'
Read our submission below
committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...
Hugely admiring of the Law Commission. This important and detailed report (621 pages no less) has landed on my desk and unlike Pam Bondi's desk, it won't then disappear, so I am going to have to read it before re-writing my October lectures! lawcom.gov.uk/publication/...
Really Excited to Discuss My New Book 'The World White Web' at This Year's Author Meets Critic Session at the British Society of Criminology Conference With the LEGEND that is #NeilChakraborti and also Present My Recent Work on #AI and #Southport. Buzzing to Catch Up With Friends/Colleagues 😍😍
Fantastic Presentation from #KateBarber on Men's Rights Activists, Kate Outlines 4 Strategies to Disrupt the Legal Socialisation Process in MRA Discourse 1) Pre-Bunking Strategies 2) Legal Education 3) Legal Transparency 4) Acknowledgement of Grievances
Cannot wait to read this! Out today, from the brilliant @empowell.bsky.social.
www.routledge.com/The-Language...
