Dr Ayse LokmanogluA Picture is Worth a Thousand (S)words: Classification and Diffusion of Memes on a Partisan Media Platform
Read moreThe Executive Summary of this report is also available in Arabic and French. Memes have become an integral tool of…
Bàrbara Molas‘Tomatoes for Tanks’: Humour and Violence in Post-Brexit Meme Culture
Read moreIn 2022, the humanitarian organisation World Vision published a report warning about the spread of anti-refugee messaging, in particular as…
Primitivo III Cabanes RagandangYouths Challenging Violent Extremism through Digital Platforms in the Philippines
Read moreIntroduction “They tolerated the ISIS in Marawi. ISIS sympathisers!” “They deserve it. They were handlers of killers, carnappers, drug lords…
Catherine TebaldiGranola Nazis: Digital Traditionalism, the Folkish Movement and the Normalisation of the Far-Right
Read moreIntroduction Digital traditionalist women carefully cultivate winsome images on Instagram: harvesting fields of beets with the folds of muslin dresses…
Khalil BoughaliFrank James: The New York Subway Shooter’s Radical Discourse on Social Media
Read moreIntroduction On April 12, 2022, Frank R. James carried out a shooting in the New York City Subway, injuring ten…
GNET TeamUnpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition
Read moreIntroduction In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…
Emilia LounelaDiscourses of Violence in Incel Online Discussions After the Plymouth Shooting
Read moreIntroduction In August 2021, a young man attacked and killed his mother in Plymouth, UK. He then left his home,…
Sarah DalyUnderstanding Incels’ Online Behaviour and Perceptions of Hateful Content
Read moreIntroduction Recent years have seen an increase in awareness and concern about incels, or involuntarily celibate men, particularly because of…
Rutger SjoertsIncel PR: The Rebranding of the Incel Community & the Role of Media and Academia
Read moreCertain usernames and names of forums have been removed to avoid amplifying their voices and platforms. In August 2021, Jake…
Dr Alta GrobbelaarCan ‘Cyberterrorism’ Really Exist in Africa?
Read moreIntroduction Since the 1990s and the end of the Cold War, Africa has experienced a strong upward trend in ICT…
GNET’s Research Digest
Sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay updated about our work