SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS: ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES
CHIAR: Paul Gill
The Use of Social Media in Social Sciences: Ethical and Methodological Considerations
Aaron Zelin: King’s College London
The Curious Case of Uncle Tom: The Importance of Domain Knowledge for Sentiment Analysis on Extremist Forums
Maura Conway: Dublin City University
Gijs Koot: TNO
Lisa McInerney: Dublin City University
Daniela Pisoiu: IFSH, University of Hamburg
Martijn Spitters: TNO
Mark van Staalduinen: TNO
The Forum Extracting Network Spider: A Systematic Approach to Retrieving and Mapping Social Network Data from Online Extremist Forums [Forum Focused Web Crawler]
Richard Frank: Simon Fraser University
Martin Bouchard: Simon Fraser University
VIOLENT POLITICAL EXTREMISM AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE NEWS
CHAIR: Azra Naseem
Playing out Identity Politics on Nigerian Online News Media
Abiodun Salawu: North-West University, South Africa
Online Framing and Priming of Responses to Violent Political Extremism: Differential Responses of Journalists to Interpretive Manipulation of News Events
Anthony Lemieux: Georgia State University
Michael Jablonski: Georgia State University
Terror on our Screens: The Common Interest of Theatrical Terrorism
Ben Stanford: University of Bedfordshire
RESPONDING TO VIOLENT ONLINE POLITICAL EXTREMISM: NARRATIVES AND MESSAGING
CHAIR: Akil Awan
Do We Really Need Counter Narratives? – And What is a Narrative Anyway?
Harald Weilnboeck: Minor eV
Towards an Integrated Counter Messaging Strategy
Henry Tuck: Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Animating CVE: Online Animations as a Form of Counter-Narrative: The Case of Abdullah X
Orla Lehane: Dublin City University
ANALYSES OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT: NETWORKS AND TEXT
CHAIR: Pádraig Cunningham
An Open Source Intelligence (OSNIT) Framework for Social Network Analysis on Lone Wolves
Stephan Humer: Berlin University of the Arts
Thomas Petzold: HMKW – University of Applied Sciences for Media, Communication and Management
Islamist Extremists in Norway [Linguistic Multimodal Text Analysis and Rhetoric, Web Crawling and Computational Text Analysis]
Lars Gule: Oslo and Akershus University College
Hugo Hammer: Oslo University College of Applied Sciences
Anne Birgitta Nilsen: Oslo University College of Applied Sciences
PROPAGANDA, MYTH AND VISUAL EFFECTS
CHAIR: Alex Meleagrou-Hitchens
Al-Qaeda’s Salvation Myth in Images
Asiem El Difraoui: IfM Berlin
British Fighters in Syria: Social Media, the Visual and Scapes of Effect
Kevin McDonald: Middlesex University
ISIS, al Qaeda and the Struggle for the Future of the Ummah
James Fitzgerald: Dublin City University
Picturing the Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi: A Cross-Cultural Media Analysis
Carol Winkler: Georgia State University
Michael Jablonski: Georgia State University
SOCIAL MEDIA, VIOLENT JIHADIS AND SYRIA
CHAIR: Jon Bew
Social Media and the New Wave of Egyptian Jihadists
Robert Wesley: Terrorism Research Initiative
The Sunni-Shia Divide as the Rationale of The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and the Effects on Muslim Communities
Nico Prucha: University of Vienna
Cyber Jihadi Propaganda: The Curious Case of Jabhat al-Nusra on Twitter
Danit Gal: IDC Herzliya
TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR RESEARCHING VIOLENT ONLINE POLITICAL EXTREMISM
CHAIR: Mark van Staalduinen
Guerrilla Web-Fare: Islamists, Cyber Attacks and the New Digital Warriors [Social Media Sentiment Analysis]
Haroon Ullah: Georgetown University
Analytical Approaches to Data Generated from Minority and Extremist Social Media [Share Best Practice on the Tools and Techniques]
Stewart Bertram: Control Risks
Mapping Radical Ideologies: Thematic Patterns and Latent Structure
Andreas Armborst: University of Freiburg
THE EXTREME RIGHT
CHAIR: Daniela Pisoiu
Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems
Derek O’Callaghan: University College Dublin
Derek Greene: University College Dublin
Maura Conway: Dublin City University
Joe Carthy: University College Dublin
Pádraig Cunningham: University College Dublin
Networking Hate: The Online Hate Network of the Hungarian Far Right
Szele Aron: Central European University
Disguising Online Racism in Italy: Symbols, Words and Statements of New Racist Discourse [Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)]
Andrea Cerase: Regione Abruzzo – Light On Project
VIOLENT RADICALISATION
CHAIR: Cristina Archetti
Extremism in the Age of the Internet
Erin Marie Saltman: Quilliam
Gender and the online radicalisation of Roshonara Choudhry
Elizabeth Pearson: King’s College London
The Lone Actor Terrorist Dilemma
Paul Gill: University College London
The Internet as a Field of Struggle: The Dynamics of Online Radicalisation in Tajikistan
Edward Lemon: University of Exeter
LEGAL RESPONSES TO VIOLENT ONLINE POLITICAL EXTREMISM
CHAIR: Michael Jablonski
Utilizing Social Media in Times of Unrest
Margarita Jaitner: Center for Security Analysis Stockholm
Louiza Asoyan: Center for Security Analysis Stockholm
Blocking Terrorist Material Online: Fundamental Rights and Governance Issues
TJ McIntyre: University College Dublin
Opportunities and Ethics of SOCMINT Practices for State Agencies in the Netherlands
Anno Bunnik: Centre for Applied Research in Security Innovation, Liverpool Hope University
Cyber Crimes, Substantial Punishments: Sentencing Online National Security Crimes in Israel
Asaf Wiener: Tel Aviv University
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
CHAIR: James Fitzgerald
The Structure of Online Communication in Extremist and Non-Extremist Political Movements
Jonathan Bright: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Revolution Generation: Occupy Movement in Russia
Margarita Erofeeva: American University in Bulgaria
Marat Aisin: American University in Bulgaria
Analysis on Gender-Based Cyber Terrorism in Bangladesh
Tanim Laila: Institute of Hazrat Mohammad SAW
Rizwana Yusuf: Institute of Hazrat Mohammad SAW
Simi Shaila: Institute of Hazrat Mohammad SAW
Are Gangs Becoming Radicalised? Evidence from Internet Use Among Gangs in Five US Cities
Scott Decker: Arizona State University
David Pyrooz: Sam Houston State University
VIOLENT ONLINE RADICALISATION, AND FRAGMENTATION
CHAIR: Nico Prucha
Extremism, Communication and New Media: Explaining Radicalization in the Digital Age
Cristina Archetti: University of Salford
Leaving Paradise on Earth for Paradise Hereafter: Maldives, Radicalisation and the Internet
Azra Naseem: Dublin City University
Assessing the Online and Offline Impact of Discord Within the Militant Salafist Milieu
Leah Farrall: United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The Role of Social Media in ‘Democratising’ Dissent Within Online Jihadist Networks
Shiraz Maher: King’s College London