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VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Dr Anthony Richards Title: Conceptualising Terrorism: Challenges and Implications Outline: “Why is it important to generate an agreed definition of terrorism? What are the challenges that confront this and to what the extent can we view terrorism as an analytically distinctive concept?” ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Dr Joe Whittaker Title: Catch 22: Researcher Welfare and Institutional Ethics within Online Terrorism and Extremism Research Outline: “Recent years have seen an increase in concern over the welfare of researchers who regularly engage with extremist and terrorist content online. This comprises external (such as death threats, doxing, ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Kristina Kirk, Principal Advisor, Christchurch Call Unit, New Zealand Government Title: The Christchurch Call Outline: This presentation will discuss the establishment and evolution of The Christchurch Call, an initiative arising as a consequence of the livestreaming of an horrific terrorist event in New Zealand in 2019. The Call ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: J.M. Berger Title: The Conceptualisation of Extremism Online Outline: The rise of the online environment has been a game changer in enabling extremist movements to destabilize civil societies around the globe. This presentation explores the interface between extremism and the internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Jonathan Collins Title: An Introduction to Netnography & Step-by-step Guide Outline: “New immersive methodologies are needed to better understand online extremist communities. The presentation will cover one of these (Netnography), providing an essential glimpse into this multifunctional tool and the benefits it offers to the field. The lecture ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Dr. Saimum Parvez Title: Digital Media and Narrowcasting: How Bangladeshi Violent Extremists Target Women and Youth for Recruitment Outline: This presentation discusses the role of digital media in recruitment and how it helps recruits and recruiters discover each other. In Bangladesh, digital media have provided opportunities for violent ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Dr. Rohit Chopra Title: Online Hindu extremism: Local, national, and global dimensions Outline: This presentation traces the history of online Hindu extremism, from its origins in the early years of the post-web internet to its significant amplification during the last decade with the political ascendancy of the Hindu ...

VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Jade Hutchinson Title: The Far-Right Online Ecosystem Outline: This presentation provides a conceptual and empirical overview of how networks of online platforms and devices shape Far-Right extremism and terrorism. Drawing on current PhD research into how online extremist ecosystems operate, issues of ecosystem conceptualisation, data collection, and the ...

VOX-Pol Virtual Roundtable: Artificial Intelligence and Extremism, Wednesday 13 December. (Please note, some slides are blurred due to sensitivities around ongoing research) This roundtable is organized by the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence on online extremism in the context of the ExID, Extreme Identities, project funded by the EU Horizon2020 NORFACE programme, Democratic Governance in Turbulent ...

VOX Pol Workshop: Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia This workshop explores the digital extremist landscape in South and Southeast Asia and the challenges and responses to tackling online extremism. The workshop brings together experts and practitioners researching extremism across the ideological spectrum in Asia, to explore a broad range of issues, including but not ...