Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen Studies
Gay Dad. X escapee. Senior Lecturer Media, Uni Liverpool UK. Digital masculinities, GBV online, LGBT TV &PR cultures. PI ESRC funded lad culture on social media & gender disinformation.
- New publication 📢 📢 lnkd.in/eDkiZejm Very pleased to share our new publication (with Fiona O'Rourke) in Men and Masculinities journal, which focuses on how our research about misogynistic and homophobic banter in digital spaces fed into an educational toolkit (download for free men4change.co.uk ).
- Our research with 18-25 year old men across the UK, highlighted banter is an important form of homosocial currency which brings young men together. The study highlighted that misogynistic and homophobic banter can be normalised especially in relatively private space of friends' online chat groups.
- Some young men find it hard to challenge because they want to fit in with the affective dynamics of friendship groups. We argue it is important to draw on affect theories, to develop exercises for use with young men, to help them become aware of the homosocial dynamics of their friendship groups.
- Using this approach in the toolkit, we work to develop young men's awareness of how misogyny gets normalised, its impact on women and how they can safely challenge it in their friendship groups. The toolkit has been developed with our partners Beyond Equality, Survivors Network and Metro.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen Studies@craighaslop.bsky.social’s paper outlined the value of an ecosystems approach to misogyny influencers and the “ideological collabs” in which they engage. He argued for a focus on collaborated content as well as the promotional, financial, and interpersonal connections that characterise this space.
- Here we go - looking forward to Yannis Tzioumakis inaugural professorial lecture to a packed School of the Arts library! @sotauol.bsky.social
- Looking forward to talking with this excellent online expert panel about male centred online communities beyond the manosphere. Details of how to book here…
- Hey there! Just a heads up about June 3 online event 'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' featuring @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, Saba Hussain & @joshuathorburn.bsky.social! Register now! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesHey there! Just a heads up about June 3 online event 'Beyond the Manosphere: Exploring the Wider Phenomenon of Male-Centred Online Communities' featuring @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, Saba Hussain & @joshuathorburn.bsky.social! Register now! www.eventsforce.net/cugroup/fron...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesMay 23rd 2025 UCL registration Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @andyincornwall.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-or-co...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesScheduled speakers include: @cat-baker.bsky.social, @joncollins.bsky.social, Eileen Culloty, @simoned.bsky.social, @profafinlayson.bsky.social, Marina Frid, @debbieging.bsky.social, @craighaslop.bsky.social, @kat-hig.bsky.social… (+ even more in the next post)
- Lovely new book has arrived that I can recommend to students learning to do textual analysis of film and TV.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesWe’re living through a fundamental shift in how discourse is created. Institutions once shaped a shared reality through discourse - imperfectly, but with structure. Now, that reality has splintered. In its place, engagement-driven ecosystems amplify whatever resonates, truth optional.
- RIP - a genius and real disrupter in film and TV. Gutted! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesIn case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesNew: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesNew in @popcommjournal.bsky.social Proctor, J. (2025). “This one’s for the sapphics”: Mamamoo, “girl crush,” and transcultural networks through queer fan labor. Popular Communication, 1–15. #FanStudies doi.org/10.1080/1540...
- Yes, this simply doesn’t make sense, but is just legitimising and encouraging transphobia—there is no other way of seeing it. Trans people are a small minority and already heavily discriminated against—easy to pick on in a culture war designed to create hate and division.
- NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...
- Trying to avoid #traitors spoilers on holiday is not easy 😅.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesIt’s important to consider the consequences of online abuse on political representation in light of the changes in meta’s moderation approach allowing more abuse and harassment to stay online.
- LGBT+ discrimination now allowed on Meta. Let that sink in. The guidelines state: “We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation.”’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesI have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesMoore, M. E. “We Have Never Been Acafans: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Approach to Media Fandom”. Journal of Posthumanism, vol. 4, no. 3, Dec. 2024, pp. 177-90. #FanStudies journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/v...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesCongratulations to our director, @drmichellekaufman.bsky.social, who co-edited this volume of Global LGBTQ Health that received a 5-star review from Doody Enterprises, Inc. This #OAbook is the first-known book to date that comprehensively covers global LGBTQ health. Free download: bit.ly/4940e0B
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen Studiesmy latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesI love this. It’s a great example of theory being really put to work, and it raises so many questions about research ethics in a real (rather than tickbox) way. Lots of relevance beyond its specific topic of boys/ masculinity for all kinds of research.
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- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesHow to be a writer, #35790000: Wake at 4 am from terrifying dream Open laptop, add new and terrifying scene to WIP Go back to sleep Wake up again, read new and terrifying scene with no memory of having written it WTF, subconscious Tea
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesArticle on LinaBell, a mascot at Shanghai Disneyland and the surrounding fandom
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesI am very pleased to announce that after so many years, my article on creating WhatsApp group chats as a research method with #Eurovision fans is now published! Sadly its not open access, but please let me know if you'd like a copy :D rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesWhat IS cultural studies, anyway? We've asked the experts in our series "What Is Cultural Studies?" Dr. Ien Ang offers an answer in "On Cultural Studies, Again" (IJCS Vol 23.3, 2020):
- New publication alert 🔔 🔔Catching up on article promotions, very proud of Fiona O’Rourke for amazing work leading on this article from the ESRC funded #ladculture research. We explore and theorise men’s homosociality in private online chat groups. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Abstract key points. The paper critically examines and theorizes how digital forms of communication such as men-only private chat mediates UK young men’s homosocial interactions. Through 8 focus groups we explore …
- how participants often use online communications to engage in non-hierarchical homosociality via practices that enhance camaraderie, solidarity and emotional intimacy with other men, but also use them for hierarchical homosociality to acquire masculine status…
- via practices that include non-consensually sexting teenage girls and women’s ‘nudes’, though they defensively distanced themselves from misogyny. We outline how these findings can inform educational interventions that tackle misogyny and promote non-hierarchical masculinities.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesCan anyone recommend any really good writing on the aesthetics/appreciation of the post-industrial landscape, particularly (though not necessarily confined to) the UK? @illuminations.bsky.social - I feel like this might be something you could help with? New field for me - would like some guidance!
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesCall For Papers: Neither Factory Records nor Madchester: Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories: A two-day international conference-19th/20th June 2025 @ManMetUni docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesI'm recruiting a PhD student (with full funding in place) to work on the communication of uncertainty in relation to virtual testing used in engineering. The student will use linguistic analysis and social science methods but live in Engineering Dept. Plz share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesTwo upcoming events in Louis Cha Lecture Series on Transcultural Fandom Studies Mode: Face-to-face & Online Lecture #1: The 30 Years of China’s Online Fandom 12 December Lecture #2: Fan Translation beyond the Global North 16 December #FanStudies web.chinese.hku.hk/en/general_i...
- I’m watching #BlackDovesNetflix and I feel like the creators might have taken some inspiration from the classic 60s spy-fi TV series The Avengers. Male and female agent pair working for a mystery organisation, female agent is martial arts trained, oddball agent meet-ups …imagery…
- NEW PUBLICATION 📣 “Researching Young Masculinities During the Rise of ‘Misogyny Influencers’: Exploring Affective and Embodied Discomfort and Dilemmas of Feminist & Queer Researchers” So proud of Betsy Milne & Idil Cambazoglu for leading on this article. 1/6 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- At a time when we hear so much about adults concerns for young people navigating content from misogyny influencers, it is important to hear young peoples’ voices and to consider the impact of this type of work on researchers. Abstract below on our article with @jessicaringrose.bsky.social
- ABSTRACT: This article explores the affective dynamics of researching boys’ views on gender inequalities, (anti)feminism and ‘misogyny influencers’ such as Andrew Tate. We interviewed boys (aged 13–14) who had participated in ‘rethinking masculinity’ workshops delivered by an
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View full threadand feminist pedagogy and in dialogue with discourses and practices designed to critically engage with masculinities, considering how gender transformative work may need to disrupt the gender binary.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesNew Special Issue of Television and New Media Digital Platforms and Cancel Culture #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/26/1
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesDifficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesMy new article with @klbresearch.bsky.social is out! Check out “Mind the (Feminine) Gap: Documenting Femmephobic Knowledge Production and the Masculinization of Expertise” brill.com/downloadpdf/...
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesBe careful out there on the snow while you're enjoying how pretty campus is ❤️⛄
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesI love the Blizzard of Oz. Ah, Scotland, never change. ❄️
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesAndrew Bailey is right. Most people don't realise how shockingly *bad* is the UK's goods trade performance after Brexit and the pandemic. UK exports are 23% lower than the pre-2020 trend and imports are 16% below the trend.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesBy popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesThe energy of 2013 Twitter but everybody's back and knees hurt more.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesA message for anybody else trying to write today…
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesBluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesBluesky's coming on strong. Been here a year+ and the last few weeks feel different. A warm welcome to all the transplants, we're happy to see you. And for my own intro: I post dumb star trek pics w/alt texts. If you honour me with a follow, I will bring the dumb star trek content you crave.
- Reposted by Craig Haslop, Masculinities and Screen StudiesFolks be leaving Twitter like...
