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  • Apr042023

    Terrorist Bots: How Islamic State has Automated Management of its Online Community on Telegram

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    Abdullah Alrhmoun, Charlie Winter and János Kertész Introduction It’s well known that terrorists have been using the internet to plan…

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  • Apr032023

    ‘Telegram is King’: Extremist Foreign Fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian war

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    In January 2023, Meta removed the Azov Regiment from its list of dangerous individuals and organisations. The Ukrainian regiment became…

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  • Mar272023

    ‘Tomatoes for Tanks’: Humour and Violence in Post-Brexit Meme Culture

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    In 2022, the humanitarian organisation World Vision published a report warning about the spread of anti-refugee messaging, in particular as…

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  • Mar242023

    Youths Challenging Violent Extremism through Digital Platforms in the Philippines

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    Introduction  “They tolerated the ISIS in Marawi. ISIS sympathisers!”  “They deserve it. They were handlers of killers, carnappers, drug lords…

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  • Mar222023

    Granola Nazis: Digital Traditionalism, the Folkish Movement and the Normalisation of the Far-Right

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    Introduction Digital traditionalist women carefully cultivate winsome images on Instagram: harvesting fields of beets with the folds of muslin dresses…

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  • Mar202023

    Frank James: The New York Subway Shooter’s Radical Discourse on Social Media

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    Introduction  On April 12, 2022, Frank R. James carried out a shooting in the New York City Subway, injuring ten…

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  • Mar162023

    Unpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition 

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    Introduction  In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…

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  • Mar152023

    Discourses of Violence in Incel Online Discussions After the Plymouth Shooting

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    Introduction In August 2021, a young man attacked and killed his mother in Plymouth, UK. He then left his home,…

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  • Mar142023

    Understanding Incels’ Online Behaviour and Perceptions of Hateful Content

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    Introduction Recent years have seen an increase in awareness and concern about incels, or involuntarily celibate men, particularly because of…

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  • Mar132023

    Incel PR: The Rebranding of the Incel Community & the Role of Media and Academia

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    Certain usernames and names of forums have been removed to avoid amplifying their voices and platforms.  In August 2021, Jake…

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