Raphael GluckIslamic State Adjusts Strategy to Remain on Telegram
Read moreCould Islamic State’s next digital home be…. Telegram? Over the past few months a sustained operation led by EU law…
Jade ParkerAccelerationism in America: Threat Perceptions
Read moreAccelerationism is an ideologically agnostic doctrine of violent and non-violent actions taken to exploit contradictions intrinsic to a political system…
Chelsea DaymonThe Ukrainian Conflict: Foreign Volunteers and Online Identity Formation
Read moreDespite its local context, the conflict in Ukraine has attracted large numbers of foreign volunteers with estimates from 2014-2019 of…
Gina ValeThe Yazidi Genocide: We Are Listening
Read moreOn 3 August 2014, Islamic State swept across the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in a bid to expand its…
Joana CookIncels
Read moreIn recent years there has been a growing concern from people who have identified as ‘incel’ (involuntarily celibate) due to…
Dr. William AllchornTechnology and the Swarm: A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism
Read moreEarlier this week, the outgoing director general of the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, Sir Andrew Parker, suggested that technology was…
Inna RudolfCommunication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities
Read moreCommunication strategy by the Iraq’s religious authorities vis-à-vis countering violent extremism and the treatment of Islamic State combatants and their…
Charlie WinterOnline extremism: Research trends and gaps in the knowledge
Read moreThe Internet has long been inextricably linked with extremism, violent and otherwise. When it was still in its infancy, extremists…
Joana CookWomen of the Islamic State online
Read moreIn spring 2014 when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria it instigated the largest mobilization of…
Haid HaidTrading weapons on social media applications
Read morePeople in rebel-held northwest Syria have been trading hundreds of weapons in publicly accessible black markets. The advertised weapons include…
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