Welcome to Volume 12, Issue 7 of the monthly VOX-Pol Newsletter.
UPCOMING EVENTS
You are invited to a VOX-Pol webinar taking place on Wednesday 9 July 2025, starting at 17:00 UK time. (16:00 UTC / 12:00 midday EDT). Register to attend by emailing info@voxpol.eu.
This event is to launch a new report from Human Digital and VOX-Pol, titled, ‘Gore & Violent Extremism: An explorative analysis of the use of gore websites for hosting and sharing extremist and terrorist content’.
Report authors, Christopher Stewart and Dr Ali Fisher, will discuss the new publication and its policy recommendations. The launch will be chaired by VOX-Pol’s, Professor Maura Conway.
The report will be published at 09:00 BST on Wednesday 9 July on the VOX-Pol Publications page.
Last month’s report launch ‘Right- and left-wing violent extremist abuse of digital technologies in South America, Africa and Asia’ can now be watched on our YouTube channel.
All VOX-Pol reports are available to read in full and for free on our publications page.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium, Melbourne, Australia
The 2025 AVERT International Research Symposium is an in-person event taking place on 24-26 November 2025 at Deakin University’s Deakin Downtown Campus, Melbourne, Australia. Overseas presenters can register to present online via Zoom.
AVERT is collaborating with VOX-Pol and the Terrorism and Social Media (TASM) Conference to deliver this year’s Symposium: Signal or noise? Navigating the changing nature of violent extremism online. More information about the conference can be found on the AVERT website. The proposal submission deadline is 14 July 2025, 11:59 PM AEST.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS
Stephane J. Baele has published the article ‘Power-Law Online Extremism and Terrorism‘ in the journal Perspectives on Terrorism.
Joe Whittaker and team have published the article ‘The Dual Pathways Hypothesis of Incel Harm: A Model of Harmful Attitudes and Beliefs Among Involuntary Celibates‘ in the journal, Archives in Sexual Behaviour.
Miraji Mohamed presented on Trends and Developments in Online Extremism at the Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-terrorism (SEARCCT) International Conference (SIC 2025), held on 24 June in Kuala Lumpur.
RECENTLY ON THE VOX-Pol BLOG
Recently published on the VOX-Pol Blog:
- Researching the Dark Playground: Young People’s Exposure to Extremist Content Online, 2 July 2025, by Tim Legrand, Nathan Manning, and Melissa-Ellen Dowling
- ‘I got sent something of people shooting themselves’ – research shows young people can’t avoid harmful content online, 25 June 2025, by Dougal Sutherland
- Does Adolescence Really Tell Us Anything About Online Extremism?, 18 June 2025, by Andrew Glazzard
- How Incel Research Looks to a Former Incel, 11 June 2025, by Bo Min Keum & Richard Frank
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