Extremist Ecosystem
The cultural construction of sympathiser social identities in the Islamic state’s virtual ecosystem: an analysis of the politics of naming
September 24, 2025This study explores the politics of naming in the Islamic state (IS) media networks, looking into how sympathisers’ (munāsir-s) virtual identities are socially constructed online. Naming is a discursive practice which is purely ideological in that when sympathisers name themselves online, they re-imagine their roles and the boundaries of their national belonging alongside cultural representations ...
MENA‐Based, Far‐Right and Far‐Left Extremist Groups: A Date‐Based Analysis
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Jamal al-Khatib – My Path! A participatory P/CVE project in the field of digital youth work
August 10, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
The parallel economy: the rightwing movement creating a safe haven for deplatformed conservative influencers
August 10, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Online Extremist Ecosystems? Reflections from a Critical Cross-Disciplinary Discussion
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Online Extremist Ecosystem: Its Evolution and a Framework for Separating Extreme from Mainstream
September 18, 2023In this Perspective, the authors introduce a framework for internet users to categorize the virtual platforms they use and to understand the likelihood that they may encounter extreme content online. The authors first provide a landscape of the online extremist “ecosystem,” describing how the proliferation of messaging forums, social media networks, and other virtual community ...