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  • Apr032020

    “War Isn’t Hell; It’s Entertainment“: The Potential Role of Video Games in Radicalisation Processes

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    The last years have demonstrated that extremists’ target audience has become progressively younger: in 2016 a 12-year-old was arrested in…

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  • Mar312020

    The Visual Culture of Far-Right Terrorism

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    Since 2019, with the attacks in Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Bærum and Halle, a new form of right-wing terrorism has…

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  • Mar272020

    Vicarious Trauma From Online Extremism Research – A Call to Action

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    Academic research into terrorism and online radicalisation has spiked in recent years, arguably caused, in part, by the rise of…

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  • Mar242020

    What Makes Far-Right Rhetoric So Dangerous? Narratives of Imperilment as Justification of Violence

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    Imagine the following: Person A is constantly trying to convince person B that person C wants to kill him. He…

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  • Mar192020

    How Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members To Become Recruits For The Islamic State

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    There are a number of reasons why Tunisians joined the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. One underappreciated aspect…

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  • Mar162020

    The Globalisation of Right-Wing Copycat Attacks

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    The World Wide Web unites the world by connecting people from far off places. From Norway to New Zealand, across…

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  • Mar132020
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    The Coronavirus and Islamic State Supporters Online

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    As the world focuses on the spread and containment of the coronavirus (COVID-19), statements on the virus are also appearing…

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  • Mar092020

    Pilgrimage to the Platform: The Repeat Audience for ‘Muslim News’

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    ‘Baqiyya’ The audience of the Islamic State-affiliated Muslim News platform is in the parlance of the group — “baqiyya,” or…

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  • Mar052020

    The Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum

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    Radical message boards, large- and small-scale social media platforms, and other Internet fringes are thought to have played a role…

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  • Mar022020

    YouTube’s Role as a Platform for Extremism

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    YouTube is a hugely important platform via which individuals – in particular adolescents – access information about topics of everyday…

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