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Welcome to VOX-Pol’s Online Library, a research and teaching resource, which collects in one place a large volume of publications related to various aspects of violent online political extremism.

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VOX-Pol Blog	‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part II: Identifying Extremist Networks View Abstract ‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part II: Identifying Extremist Networks VOX-Pol Blog Post. View Full Article	2021	Pohjonen, M.	View Publisher
VOX-Pol Blog	‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part I: A Framework for Researchers View Abstract ‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part I: A Framework for Researchers VOX-Pol Blog Post. View Full Article	2021	Pohjonen, M.,	View Publisher
VOX-Pol Blog	‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain View Abstract ‘News overload’: how a constant stream of violent images affects your brain VOX-Pol Blog post. View Full Article	2024	Saavedra Macías, F. J.	View Publisher
VOX-Pol Blog	‘Incel’ Violence Is a Form of Extremism. It’s Time We Treated It as a Security Threat View Abstract ‘Incel’ Violence Is a Form of Extremism. It’s Time We Treated It as a Security Threat VOX-Pol Blog post. View Full Article	2020	Tomkinson, S., Attwell, K. and Harper, T.	View Publisher
Journal Article	‘Don’t Talk to Me’: Effects of Ideologically Homogeneous Online Groups and Politically Dissimilar Offline Ties on Extremism View Abstract ‘Don’t Talk to Me’: Effects of Ideologically Homogeneous Online Groups and Politically Dissimilar Offline Ties on Extremism This study analyzes cross-sectional data obtained from respondents in neo-Nazi online discussion forums and textual data from postings to these forums. It assesses the impact of participation in radical and homogeneous online groups on opinion extremism and probes whether this impact depends on political dissimilarity of strong and weak offline ties. Specifically, does dissimilarity attenuate (as deliberative theorists hope) or rather exacerbate (as research on biased processing predicts) extreme opinions? As expected, extremism increases with increased online participation, likely due to the informational and normative influences operating within online groups. Supporting the deliberative and biased processing models, both like-minded and dissimilar social ties offline exacerbate extremism. Consistent with the biased processing model, dissimilar offline ties exacerbate the effects of online groups. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed. View Full Article	2010	Wojcieszak, M.	View Publisher
Journal	‘Bomb-Making for Beginners’: Inside al Al-Qaeda E-Learning Course View Abstract ‘Bomb-Making for Beginners’: Inside al Al-Qaeda E-Learning Course This study explores how terrorists utilise the Internet to learn bomb-making skills. Unlike previous studies, it does not focus on assessing the quality of online bomb recipes. Rather, it discusses the efforts being made by on-line jihadists to help others learn by providing so-called “e-learning courses.” As of today, such courses have few active participants yet they tend to attract large interest – indicating that there is a demand among Al-Qaeda’s online sympathisers for developing this concept further. View Full Article	2013	Stenersen, A.	View Publisher