Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 1 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. FEATURED PUBLICATION VOX-Pol Member, Dr Ashton Kingdon, has authored a new book titled ‘The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda‘, published as part of the Palgrave Hate Studies book series.  The book draws on extensive empirical research and uses an interdisciplinary perspective. ...

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: 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 ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 11 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING EVENT VOX-Pol partner project Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) invites you to their final online webinar: Innovations & Insights. This two-hour webinar highlights the insights, lessons, and outputs developed during the TATE project. It will take place on Monday 9 December 2024 at 09:00 GMT | 10:00 CET.  ...

The VOX-Pol Blog has been running for ten years this month and currently contains nearly 500 posts. On it you’ll find book reviews, research article summaries, reflection pieces, cross-posts, and translations.  The Blog publishes short (under 1000 words) articles every week at midday on Wednesdays for our audience of researchers, policymakers, law enforcement, social media company ...

De Gerard Gill La evolución reciente del extremismo violentismo ha incluido un aumento de la prominencia de las ideologías mixtas, confusas e inestables (MCE) o  ideologías ‘bar de ensaladas’. Estos son visiones del mundo en las que numerosas perspectivas, a veces dispares, se combinan de forma dinámica y evolutiva, dando lugar a un sistema de ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 10 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING EVENT VOX-Pol Coordinator Stuart Macdonald is co-organising and speaking at the webinar, Addressing Terrorism and Social Media in West Africa, taking place this Thursday 10 October. VOX-Pol Member Alta Grobbelaar is also speaking at the event, and it’s chaired by Christogonus Ibe, of the group, African Youths Initiative ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 9 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. VOX-Pol ON LINKEDIN VOX-Pol is now on LinkedIn. Please like and follow our new page!  We are still on X @VOX_Pol with live updates, and check out our YouTube channel for videos of our events and workshops. VOX-Pol UPCOMING EVENT You are invited to an open source intelligence (OSINT) workshop, being held ...

The VOX-Pol Blog publishes weekly on a Wednesday, and takes a break in August, when we share the top 5 most read post of the year. This year, VOX-Pol has published a total of thirty-two posts, covering the online far-right, incels, online jihadism, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). We also featured Blogs on extremism legislation and ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 8 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. VOX-Pol YEAR IN REVIEW The new Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2023: The Year in Review, compiled for RAN Policy Support was published on the VOX-Pol website in July. The 2023 Year in Review is written by VOX-Pol Members Maura Conway, Ashley A. Mattheis, Sean McCafferty, and Miraji H. Mohamed. The report ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 7 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. VOX-Pol AT TASM Organised by Swansea University’s Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) conference took place on 18 and 19 June. If you missed it, you can see videos of the keynote and selected presentations. The opening keynote speech from Brian Fishman can be ...