- Mar272023Bàrbara Molas
‘Tomatoes for Tanks’: Humour and Violence in Post-Brexit Meme Culture
in InsightsIn 2022, the humanitarian organisation World Vision published a report warning about the spread of anti-refugee messaging, in particular as…
- Mar242023Primitivo III Cabanes Ragandang
Youths Challenging Violent Extremism through Digital Platforms in the Philippines
in InsightsIntroduction “They tolerated the ISIS in Marawi. ISIS sympathisers!” “They deserve it. They were handlers of killers, carnappers, drug lords…
- Mar222023Catherine Tebaldi
Granola Nazis: Digital Traditionalism, the Folkish Movement and the Normalisation of the Far-Right
in InsightsIntroduction Digital traditionalist women carefully cultivate winsome images on Instagram: harvesting fields of beets with the folds of muslin dresses…
- Mar202023Khalil Boughali
Frank James: The New York Subway Shooter’s Radical Discourse on Social Media
in InsightsIntroduction On April 12, 2022, Frank R. James carried out a shooting in the New York City Subway, injuring ten…
- Mar162023GNET Team
Unpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition
in InsightsIntroduction In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…
- Mar152023Emilia Lounela
Discourses of Violence in Incel Online Discussions After the Plymouth Shooting
in InsightsIntroduction In August 2021, a young man attacked and killed his mother in Plymouth, UK. He then left his home,…
- Mar142023Sarah Daly
Understanding Incels’ Online Behaviour and Perceptions of Hateful Content
in InsightsIntroduction Recent years have seen an increase in awareness and concern about incels, or involuntarily celibate men, particularly because of…
- Mar132023Rutger Sjoerts
Incel PR: The Rebranding of the Incel Community & the Role of Media and Academia
in InsightsCertain usernames and names of forums have been removed to avoid amplifying their voices and platforms. In August 2021, Jake…
- Mar102023Dr Alta Grobbelaar
Can ‘Cyberterrorism’ Really Exist in Africa?
in InsightsIntroduction Since the 1990s and the end of the Cold War, Africa has experienced a strong upward trend in ICT…
- Mar062023Meili Criezis
Soliciting Online Bayʿat: Pro-Islamic State Responses to Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi’s Death
in InsightsOn 30 November 2022, the official Islamic State spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, confirmed the death of Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi…
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