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VOX-Pol Newsletter 11(12) December 2024
December 10, 2024Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 12 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. PUBLICATIONS VOX-Pol Member Ryan Scrivens and team have two new peer-reviewed articles coming out: Coming soon: a new VOX-Pol joint publication with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) titled, ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa ...
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Should misogyny be treated as a form of extremism?
December 4, 2024By Stephanie Wescott, Monash University and Steven Roberts, Monash University The UK government has recently announced a review into their counter-terrorism strategy, focussing on responses to “extremist ideologies”. This announcement named misogyny as one of its extremist ideological trends of interest. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: For too long, governments have failed to address the ...
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Subscribe to Subversion: The (German) Telegram-YouTube Pipeline
November 27, 2024By Harald Sick and Maik Fielitz Tweets, blog posts, stories, reels, snaps, TikToks, short messages and live streams: there is a multitude of (self-)presentation types and, in principle, no restriction on which digital media formats extremist actors use. In times when the (counter) public is fragmented across many platforms, those who want to reach the ...
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Ideology Alone is Not Enough: The Past, Present, and Future of Terrorist Training
November 20, 2024By Daniel E. Levenson In the early to mid-19th century the organizations and ideologues who would form the vanguard of modern terrorism did a remarkable job of leverage emerging technology for both training and operational purposes. This often took the form of experimentation with new (and often unregulated) materials such as dynamite and crude IEDs ...
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Social media influencers, the far right and their potential impact on youth (radicalisation)
November 13, 2024By Sophia Rothut, Darian Harff & Cornelius Puschmann In today’s digitalised world, social media platforms have evolved into powerful channels for disseminating political information and shaping political opinion. While these platforms can enhance democratic processes by, for instance, increasing opportunities to participate in political discussions or acquire political knowledge, they also pose challenges, particularly with ...
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VOX-Pol Newsletter 11(11) November 2024
November 12, 2024Welcome to Volume 11, Issue 11 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter. UPCOMING EVENT VOX-Pol partner project Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) invites you to their final online webinar: Innovations & Insights. This two-hour webinar highlights the insights, lessons, and outputs developed during the TATE project. It will take place on Monday 9 December 2024 at 09:00 GMT | 10:00 CET. ...
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Beyond Western Misogyny: A growing incel movement in Turkey?
November 6, 2024By Kamil Yilmaz and Joe Whittaker The past decade has seen several lone actor attacks conducted by men who identify as involuntary celibate (incels). The movement is well-known for being an online community of men who go online to discuss their inability to form sexual or romantic relationships, often resulting in extremely misogynistic online posts. ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Male State Movement
October 30, 2024By Anna Kruglova This analysis will discuss the case of a Russian far-right movement named the Male State, and its transition from being one of the most notorious misogynist movements in Russia to one of the main online supporters and promoters of the war in Ukraine. When the war in Ukraine began, it became a ...
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Threats to Democracies: A view from Australia
October 23, 2024By Michele Grossman Like many other Western liberal democracies, Australia is currently experiencing a range of challenges to both the stability and sanctity of democratic structures and institutions and the beliefs and values that underwrite them. Threats to democracies are nothing new – they have existed for as long as democracies themselves. However, faced with ...
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The VOX-Pol Blog turns ten years old
October 23, 2024The VOX-Pol Blog has been running for ten years this month and currently contains nearly 500 posts. On it you’ll find book reviews, research article summaries, reflection pieces, cross-posts, and translations. The Blog publishes short (under 1000 words) articles every week at midday on Wednesdays for our audience of researchers, policymakers, law enforcement, social media company ...