Right-wing extremism
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: Studying Right-Wing Extremism
August 1, 2024VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Spring 2024: Studying Right-Wing Extremism Speaker: Sam Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. His research focuses on right-wing extremism in the United States; extremism online; social media, activism, and conflict; and computational social science. Presented by Seán ...
Examining Online Indicators of Extremism Among Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Differentiating Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Nonviolent Right-Wing Extremists
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Examining Online Behaviours: Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Examining Online Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists During Peak Posting Days
May 16, 2024Despite the ongoing need for practitioners to identify violent extremists online before their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their digital footprints generally or differences in their posting behaviors compared to their non-violent counterparts particularly – especially on high-frequency posting days. Content analysis was used to examine postings from a unique sample ...
Communities of Hateful Practice: The collective learning of accelerationist right-wing extremists, with a case study of the Halle synagogue attack
September 18, 2023In the past, far-right aggression predominantly focused on national settings and street terror against minorities; today, however, it is increasingly embedded in global networks and acts within a strategic framework aimed at revolution, targeting the liberal order as such. Ideologically combining antisemitism, racism, and anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQI, adherents of this movement see modern societies as degenerate and ...
Signposts – A background report on right-wing extremist online subcultures
September 18, 2023“Signposts” provides background information on the publications of the project “Countering Radicalisation in Right-Wing Extremist Online Subcultures” funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ). In the first part of this report, a brief historical overview of right-wing extremist internet use in Germany is given. The report describes how, since the emergence of the internet, ...
Detours and Diversions Online Strategies for the Dissemination of Right-Wing Extremist Content
September 18, 2023Since the beginning of 2021, ISD Germany has been researching right-wing extremist actors on alternative platforms on the internet. Three reports were published as part of the German Federal Ministry for Justice (BMJ)-funded project “Countering radicalisation in right-wing extremist online subcultures”. The last report in 2021, “Detours and Diversions – Online Strategies for the Dissemination ...