Christchurch
Christchurch’s Legacy of Fighting Violent Extremism Online Must Go Further – Deep into the Dark Web
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Christchurch Terror Attack: A Case of Online Radicalisation?
August 16, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
What can we learn from the online response to the Halle terrorist attack?
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Social media creates a spectacle society that makes it easier for terrorists to achieve notoriety
August 6, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
What Does the ‘New Right’ Have to do With the Christchurch Attack? Some Evidence from Twitter on Discursive Overlaps
August 6, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series: The Christchurch Call
August 2, 2024VOX-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 ...
The Christchurch Call Leaders Summit 20 September 2022: civil society perspectives
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda
September 18, 2023During the 2019 Christchurch attack, the perpetrator livestreamed footage from a helmet-mounted camera. The aesthetic similarity of the attack footage to first-person shooter (FPS) videogames has led to speculation that this might have somehow ‘gamified’ the attack. Generally, the argument for this is that the attack footage (1) imitates or resembles FPS games, gamifying attacks ...
One year since the Christchurch Call to Action: A Review
September 18, 2023This brief analyses the impact of the Christchurch Call to Action, issued to gather countries and technology companies to stop the use of the internet for disseminating violent extremist content. The Call was the result of a summit organised shortly after a terrorist attack in New Zealand in March 2019. This brief finds that the ...
The Christchurch Attacks: Livestream Terror in the Viral Video Age
September 18, 2023In the space of 36 minutes on March 15, 2019, it is alleged that Brenton Tarrant, an Australian far-right extremist, fatally shot 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch in the deadliest terrorist attack in New Zealand’s history. What was unique about Tarrant’s attack—at least insofar as extreme-right terrorism is concerned—is that he livestreamed his ...