Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 12 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter.
PUBLICATIONS
VOX-Pol Member Ryan Scrivens and team have two new peer-reviewed articles coming out:
- Brenna Helm, Thomas J. Holt, Ryan Scrivens, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, and Richard Frank. (2024). Examining the Online Posting Behaviors and Trajectories of Incel Forum Members. Crime and Delinquency. Ahead of Print, 1-21.
- Ryan Scrivens, Thomas W. Wojciechowski, Tiana Gaudette, and Richard Frank. (2024). Examining the Persisting and Desisting Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists. Terrorism and Political Violence. Ahead of Print, 1-23.
Coming soon: a new VOX-Pol joint publication with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) titled, ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia‘.
PRESENTATIONS
VOX-Pol Coordinator, Prof Stuart Macdonald, delivered a remote presentation to the International Conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity, held in New Delhi on 13-15 November. The talk, titled ‘Implementing the EU’s Terrorist Content Online Regulation’, provides an overview of the findings of 15 interviews with small and micro Hosting Service Providers, about their experiences of implementing and seeking to comply with the EU’s Terrorist Content Online Regulation. The recording is available to watch on YouTube.
RECENTLY ON THE VOX-Pol BLOG
Last month’s Blog posts included:
- Should misogyny be treated as a form of extremism?, by Stephanie Wescott and Steven Roberts, 4 December 2024.
- Subscribe to Subversion: The (German) Telegram-YouTube Pipeline, by Harald Sick and Maik Fielitz, 27 November 2024.
- Ideology Alone is Not Enough: The Past, Present, and Future of Terrorist Training, by Daniel E. Levenson, 20 November 2024.
- Social media influencers, the far right and their potential impact on youth (radicalisation), by Sophia Rothut, Darian Harff & Cornelius Puschmann, 13 November 2024.
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IN THE MEDIA
A spotlight on recent news items featuring VOX-Pol Members and their research:
- How an Empty Internet gave us Tradwives and Trump, The New York Times, 21 Nov 2024.
- Misogyny Won The U.S. Election. Here’s How Women Can Fight Back, Atmos, 13 November 2024