Welcome to Volume 10, Issue 3 of the VOX-Pol Newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENT
A launch event for the Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) project takes place in Paris on Thursday, 28 September 2023, from 14:30 to 20:30.
The event will bring together relevant actors in countering the terrorist use of the internet, in particular the diverse stakeholders involved in implementing the EU’s regulation on terrorist content. VOX-Pol Member Institutions Swansea University, Dublin City University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich make up three of the six TATE consortium members.
The event will include a brief presentation of the TATE project and its aims in supporting hosting service providers (HSPs) align their counterterrorism response with the EU Regulation on the dissemination of terrorist content online, followed by three panel sessions. TATE welcomes you to register your interest in attending.
TASM Call For Papers
The call for papers, posters and proposals for breakout sessions for the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) 2024 conference is now available!
- The deadline for the call for papers is Friday 20th October 2023.
- The deadline for the call for proposals for breakout sessions is Friday 1st December 2023.
- The deadline for expressions of interest in exhibiting a poster is Thursday 28th March 2024.
For more information, click here. Please be aware that TASM is an in-person conference and that they are unable to accommodate remote presentations.
VOX-Pol BLOG TOP 5 MOST READ
The Blog publishes new articles weekly on Wednesdays and takes a break in August, when we share the most read of the previous year. Click to see the most read posts of the year from 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. We are pleased to share the most read from academic year 2022/2023:
5. Contrary to the Washington Post’s Headline, White Americans aren’t Disappearing Under Biden by Ye Bin Won and Meghan Conroy
4. Far-Right Lone-Actor Terrorist Attacks and Violent Extremist use of File-Sharing Platforms by Sean McCafferty
3. Terror, Territory and Quality: How Monitoring Propaganda Videos Provides Insight into the Taliban’s 2021 Occupational Control of Afghanistan by Daniel Siegel and Mary Bennett Doty
2. Right-Wing Extremists’ Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature by Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, Maura Conway, and Thomas J. Holt
1. #Jailbait and “In a videogame ofc”: Transgression and violent talk as community building in the incelosphere by Greta Jasser
We welcome submissions to the VOX-Pol Blog. To take up the opportunity to publish your research and ideas, and for more information, drop us a line at info@voxpol.eu. The submission instructions are HERE.
IN THE MEDIA
- Far-right voice opponents co-opt comments from controversial New Zealand speaker, The Guardian, 22 August 2023.
- Gorseinon youth group tackle hate graffiti, Swansea Bay News, 22 August 2023.
- Wie die Taliban Kabul in zwei Jahren verändert haben: Ein Gott, ein Staat, ein Patriarchat, der Freitag, 18 August 2023.
- Reflecting on Afghan People’s Aspirations Marking Afghanistan’s 104th Independence Day, Indian Defence Review, 11 August 2023
- Christi van der Westhuizen: Gewete oor slawerny ook hiér nodig, Netwerk24, 20 July 2023.
- Commentary: Understanding and countering the challenge of youth radicalisation in Singapore, Today Online, 10 August 2023.
- Content Moderation Through Removal of Service: Content Delivery Networks and Extremist Websites, GNET, 13 July 2023.
- AI i kampen mot terror, Expo, 5 July 2023.
- The Allen, Texas, Attack: Ideological Fuzziness and the Contemporary Nature of Far-Right Violence, CTC Sentinel, 23 June 2023.