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Subscribe to Subversion: The (German) Telegram-YouTube Pipeline
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Ideology Alone is Not Enough: The Past, Present, and Future of Terrorist Training
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Social media influencers, the far right and their potential impact on youth (radicalisation)
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Beyond Western Misogyny: A growing incel movement in Turkey?
November 27, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Counter-narratives and strategic communications, offline and online
November 12, 2024Counter-radicalisation is resource-hungry; policy development and implementation, interventions through the criminal justice system, and bespoke one-to-one engagements outside of it are all costly. In contrast, counter narrative campaigns ostensibly offer a simpler proposition. By engaging with various audiences, campaigners from both the state and civil society can seek to reduce the number of people turning ...
Content moderation: Social media and countering online radicalisation
November 12, 2024As terrorist, extremist, and hateful content has become widespread on social media, platforms have responded with content moderation – the flagging, review, and enforcement of rules and standards on user-generated content online. This chapter provides an introduction to contemporary content moderation practices, technologies, and contexts and outlines key debates in the field. The chapter explores ...
Grounds for Cooperation in the Radicalisation Governance Milieu? A Qualitative Exploration of Stakeholder Issue Frames of Online Radicalisation
November 7, 2024In the study of online radicalisation, little attention has been paid to the way local stakeholders within the broader online radicalisation milieu define, frame, and problematise online radicalisation. As these conceptions and problematisations are crucial to the possibility of cooperation and coordination between them, this lacuna represents a curious oversight. Drawing on a cross-national and ...
30 Years of Trends in Terrorist and Extremist Games
November 7, 2024Violent extremist, terrorist, and targeted hate actors have been actively exploiting video games to propagandise, recruit and fundraise for more than 30 years. This report presents an analysis of that history using a unique dataset, the Extremist and Terrorist Games Database (ETGD), developed by the authors. It contains 155 reviewed entries of standalone games, modifications ...
Belonging is just a click away: Extremism, radicalisation, and the role of online communities
October 30, 2024As the field of terrorism studies evolves, there continues to be increasing interest in how the Internet and social media platforms are impacting extremist groups, militant movements, and individual radicalisation to violence. Especially with the rise of the Islamic State, and the migration of tens of thousands of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq, there ...