terrorism
The UK’s plan to deny terrorists ‘safe spaces’ online would make us all less safe in the long run
July 11, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part III – Research and Policy Implications
July 5, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part II – Quantifying Behaviours, Patterns, and Processes Using Closed Sources
July 5, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Part I – Quantifying Behaviours, Patterns, and Processes Using Open Sources
July 5, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Exploring the Extent to Which Extremism and Terrorism Have Changed Since the Advent of the Internet
September 18, 2023This review will examine the academic literature over which role the internet has in the evolution of extremism and terrorism since its advent. It will compare two different approaches. The first claims that the internet is a major factor that facilitates ideas and narratives, which can lead to the rise of extremism and terrorism. The ...
The Use of Counter Narratives to Combat Violent Extremism Online
September 18, 2023Due to recent rises in extremism across the globe (Dean et al. in J Polic Intell Count Terror 11:121–142, 2016; Le Roux in Responding to the rise in violent extremism in the Sahel. Africa Center For Strategic Studies, 2019, p. 26) and (Jones in Int Secur 32:7–40, 2008), governments and law enforcement organisations, such as ...
Rethinking Online Radicalization
September 18, 2023This article seeks to re-ontologize online radicalization. Individuals becoming terrorists after being exposed to online content have become a prescient concern for academics, policy makers, and journalists. Existing theoretical contributions to the concept have assumed that there are two ontological domains—online and offline—that can be meaningfully separated. This article will draw from several arguments from ...