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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.  ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 6 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. VOX-Pol AT TASM The Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) conference takes place in the Great Hall on Swansea University’s Bay Campus on 18 and 19 June 2024. VOX-Pol is a co-organiser of the conference, please visit our stand and say hello! UPCOMING VOX-Pol WORKSHOP A ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 5 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. NEW VOX-Pol REPORT VOX-Pol is pleased to publish a new report AI Extremism: Technologies, Tactics, Actors. This report is written by Stephane Baele, Professor of International Relations at UCLouvain, and Lewys Brace, Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science (Criminology) at Exeter University. The report was published on 25 April and was ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 4 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. NEW VOX-Pol WEBINAR VOX-Pol is pleased to share a new webinar on YouTube: The Next Gen Academic Survival Workshop Series: Early Career Researcher Safety, Wellbeing and Ethics. This is a new webinar series designed specifically for early career researchers to explore the complexities, challenges, and dangers ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 3 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. NEW VOX-Pol REPORT VOX-Pol is pleased to publish its newest report, Online Jihadist Propaganda Dissemination Strategies, by Stuart Macdonald and Sean McCafferty. The report is available in full and for free on the VOX-Pol Publications page. The authors discussed the new report on a Tech Against Terrorism Podcast episode last week, titled ‘How ...

Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 2 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. VOX-Pol SUMMER EVENTS Swansea University is delighted to, once again, host the VOX-Pol Summer School in 2024. This week-long course will run from Monday 10 to Friday 14 June 2024 (from 9am-5pm) and is designed to provide early career researchers with an expert-led curriculum on ...