- Apr062020Dr. William Allchorn
Cumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation
in InsightsOften when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations…
- Apr032020Linda Schlegel
“War Isn’t Hell; It’s Entertainment“: The Potential Role of Video Games in Radicalisation Processes
in InsightsThe last years have demonstrated that extremists’ target audience has become progressively younger: in 2016 a 12-year-old was arrested in…
- Mar312020Lisa Bogerts
The Visual Culture of Far-Right Terrorism
in InsightsSince 2019, with the attacks in Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Bærum and Halle, a new form of right-wing terrorism has…
- Mar272020Dr. Michael Krona
Vicarious Trauma From Online Extremism Research – A Call to Action
in InsightsAcademic research into terrorism and online radicalisation has spiked in recent years, arguably caused, in part, by the rise of…
- Mar242020Holger Marcks
What Makes Far-Right Rhetoric So Dangerous? Narratives of Imperilment as Justification of Violence
in InsightsImagine the following: Person A is constantly trying to convince person B that person C wants to kill him. He…
- Mar192020Aaron Zelin
How Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members To Become Recruits For The Islamic State
in InsightsThere are a number of reasons why Tunisians joined the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. One underappreciated aspect…
- Mar162020Friederike Wegener
The Globalisation of Right-Wing Copycat Attacks
in InsightsThe World Wide Web unites the world by connecting people from far off places. From Norway to New Zealand, across…
- Mar132020Chelsea Daymon
The Coronavirus and Islamic State Supporters Online
in InsightsAs the world focuses on the spread and containment of the coronavirus (COVID-19), statements on the virus are also appearing…
- Mar092020Moustafa Ayad
Pilgrimage to the Platform: The Repeat Audience for ‘Muslim News’
in Insights‘Baqiyya’ The audience of the Islamic State-affiliated Muslim News platform is in the parlance of the group — “baqiyya,” or…
- Mar052020Isabelle van der Vegt
The Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum
in InsightsRadical message boards, large- and small-scale social media platforms, and other Internet fringes are thought to have played a role…
Insights
GNET > Insights