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Inside the EDL: Populist Politics in a Digital Age
September 18, 2023The English Defence League (EDL) is the biggest populist street movement in a generation. Yet the make-up of the group and what its members believe remain a mystery because it has no formal joining procedures or membership list and much of its activity takes place online. The collection of large amounts of data from social ...
New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism: Online and Offline
September 18, 2023This volume is a result of a research project at the University of Vienna (Austria). The project “Jihadism online” aims at a multi-dimensional analysis of online presence of the transnational tendency often called Jihadism. ...
Online Terror and Hate: The First Decade
September 18, 2023The Internet’s unprecedented global reach and scope combined with the difficulty in monitoring and tracing communications make the Internet a prime tool for extremists and terrorists. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has been monitoring these developments for nearly two decades through our Digital Terrorism and Hate Project. Our findings reveal that as the Internet has grown, ...
Digital Terrorism and Hate 2012: The Power of Social Networking in the Digital Age
September 18, 2023Analysis of ‘digital terrorism’ and hate on the Internet ...
The Virtual ‘Caliphate’: Understanding Islamic State’s Propaganda Strategy
September 18, 2023For too long, the immensity of Islamic State’s propaganda machine has obscured a rational understanding of it. The organisation’s media strategists are producing high-definition depictions of the most abhorrent brutality on an industrial scale, ensuring that jihadism is digitalised and brought firmly into the 21st century. The days when we saw grainy video footage played ...
Shifting Fire: Information Effects in Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations
September 18, 2023Report from the “Information Operations and Winning the Peace” workshop, held at the U.S. Army War College (USAWC), Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania ...
Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
September 18, 2023In this report a team of scholars critically assesses both the “cyberutopian” and “cyberskeptic” perspectives on the impact of new media on political movements. The authors propose a more complex approach that looks at the role of new media in contentious politics from five interlocking levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime ...
How A Boy Becomes A Martyr: The Dangers of Web 2.0 Technology
September 18, 2023This report, by the Urban Warfare Analysis Centre, is a fictitious account of how a young person in America could become a suicide bomber for an Islamic extremist group. It is the fifth in a series of reports on Web 2.0 technology and future urban warfare. All references to people, groups, and products are intended ...
Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond YouTube 2011
September 18, 2023This second Video Vortex Reader marks the transition of online video into the mainstream. Staggering statistics of hypergrowth no longer impress us. Massive usage is not an indication of relevance. Heavy use does not automatically translate into well-funded research or critical art practices. Is the study of online video, like most new media topics, doomed ...
Protecting the Homeland from International and Domestic Terrorism Threats
September 18, 2023This paper collection entitled “Protecting the Homeland from International and Domestic Terrorism Threats: Current Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Root Causes, the Role of Ideology, and Programs for Counter-radicalization and Disengagement”, seeks to add insights without needlessly repeating what has been heard and read elsewhere. What separates this paper collection from the many others on this topic ...