New Paper on digital masculinities co-written by Dr Richard McNeil-Willson, Alwaleed Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies

A new paper co-written by Professor Tahir Abbas (Aston University) and Dr Richard McNeil-Willson, Alwaleed Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies (the University of Edinburgh) was published in Men and Masculinities.

The left side of the image includes the Alwaleed Centre Logo and reads 'New Publication' and has a graphic of a document and megaphone. The right side of the photo reads 'Digital Masculinities in Crisis: Understanding Virtual Pathways to Male Extremism Across Communities', Tahir Abbas and Richard McNeil-Willson Men and Masculinities, 7 October 2025, SAGE Publications.

Summary

The paper, ‘Digital Masculinities in Crisis: Understanding Virtual Pathways to Male Extremism Across Communities’, “introduces the Digital Masculinity Radicalisation Pathway (DMRP) framework to understand how digital spaces amplify threatened masculinity towards extremism” (Abbas & McNeil-Willson 2025: 1). 

The study is based on a comparative analysis of 215 interviews conducted with young ethnic majority and Muslim minority men in the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and the UK. 

Read the paper.

Cite:

Abbas, T., & McNeil-Willson, R. (2025). Digital Masculinities in Crisis: Understanding Virtual Pathways to Male Extremism Across Communities. Men and Masculinities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X251387631

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