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The VOX-Pol Blog Editorial Team
September 18, 2025The VOX-Pol Blog publishes weekly on Wednesdays on the topic of online extremism and online terrorism. It began in 2014 and now has over 500 entries. Each Blog post is added into the VOX-Pol Online Library so it’s searchable by title, topic and author. The Blog publishes original research, article summaries, book reviews, editorials, and ...
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How to submit a VOX-Pol Blog Post
September 2, 2025Is your research related to online extremism and/or terrorism? Would you like to share some of your findings or reflections with an audience, including other researchers, policymakers, law enforcement, social media company representatives, and others, with similar interests? If so, how about contributing to the VOX-Pol Blog? We will publish your contribution and communicate it to ...
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The VOX-Pol Blog 2024/25: Most Read
August 27, 2025The VOX-Pol Blog publishes weekly on a Wednesday, and takes a break in August, when we share the most-read post of the year. This year, VOX-Pol has published a total of 48 posts. Over ten of these articles were on the topic of ‘incels’ and ‘online misogyny’. ‘Young people’ were the primary focus of five ...
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New VOX-Pol Report: Gore and Violent Extremism
July 9, 2025VOX-Pol published a new report titled ‘Gore and Violent Extremism: An explorative analysis of the use of gore websites for hosting and sharing extremist and terrorist content‘ on 9 July 2025, and launched at an online event with its authors on the same day. The report is written by Human Digital, with Dr Ali Fisher ...
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New VOX-Pol Webinar on YouTube
June 20, 2025The recent VOX-Pol webinar ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia‘ is now available to watch on YouTube. This webinar, held on Wednesday 18 June 2025, accompanies the report of the same name, which is available to read online and for free on the VOX-Pol Publications page. ...
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Call for proposals: 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium
June 13, 2025The 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium is an in-person event taking place on 24-26 November 2025 at Deakin University’s Deakin Downtown Campus, Melbourne, Australia. Overseas presenters can register to present online via Zoom. This year, AVERT is collaborating with VOX-Pol and the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference to deliver this year’s Symposium: Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent ...
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Call for Papers: VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference 2025
June 3, 2025VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference 2025 Hosted by Charles University, Prague September 25-26th, 2025 We are pleased to announce the VOX-Pol Next Generation Network Conference, a community of early-career researchers (ECRs) working on issues related to violent online extremism in its many forms. The conference will be held September 25-26th, 2025 at Charles University in ...
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New VOX-Pol Report: Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia
April 14, 2025VOX-Pol is pleased to announce a new report in its publication series: ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia‘. This report, jointly published by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and VOX-Pol, investigates the underexplored phenomenon of right- and left-wing violent extremist groups ...
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Call For Applications: C-REX and VOX-Pol 2025 Summer School
February 5, 2025Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety The study of online violent right-wing extremism is an emerging and growing field in academia. However, it can also expose researchers to unique methodological challenges and risks of harm. This five-day workshop is co-organized by C-REX and VOX-Pol and aims to provide PhD students with the foundation skills for studying online ...
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The VOX-Pol Blog turns ten years old
October 23, 2024The 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 ...