Manjana SoldThe Amalgamation of Virtuality and Reality in Radicalisation Processes
Virtuality has long since become an integral part of the world we live in today. It is thus not surprising…
Dr. Colin ClarkeThe ‘Incel’ Ideology Continues to Build a Strong Following in the Online ‘Manosphere’
While most of the counterterrorism community has focused on the threat posed by Salafi-jihadists and radical right-wing extremists, the growth…
Julien BellaicheOnline Antisemitism in Times of COVID-19
On 7 April, Germany’s Commissioner on antisemitism Felix Klein warned of a surge in antisemitism with the spread of the…
Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens5G and the Far Right: How Extremists Capitalise on Coronavirus Conspiracies
Not since 9/11 has a global event given so much opportunity to conspiracy theorists as the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…
Dr. Eviane Leidig“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic
A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy…
Aymenn Al-TamimiCoronavirus and Official Islamic State Output: An Analysis
‘Islamic State is avoiding Europe/telling fighters to avoid Europe’: headlines and stories along these lines circulated in many media outlets…
Kabir TanejaIslamic State Propaganda in India
The 221st issue of Islamic State’s (IS) al-Naba’ newsletter was perhaps the first time IS dedicated an entire page to…
Manjana SoldThe Coronavirus as a Means to an End: Extremist Reinterpretations of the Pandemic
Various aspects of society and everyday life have become affected by the clampdown on the Coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions…
Marc-André ArgentinoThe COVID Conspiracy Files
The world is now four months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant infodemic. Though efforts have been made to…
Dr. William AllchornCumulative Extremism Online: How Moral and Strategic Aims Predict Narrative Escalation
Often when extremisms come about, they don’t occur in isolation. In the UK, for example, the emergence of extremist mobilisations…
Linda Schlegel“War Isn’t Hell; It’s Entertainment“: The Potential Role of Video Games in Radicalisation Processes
The last years have demonstrated that extremists’ target audience has become progressively younger: in 2016 a 12-year-old was arrested in…
Lisa BogertsThe Visual Culture of Far-Right Terrorism
Since 2019, with the attacks in Christchurch, Poway, El Paso, Bærum and Halle, a new form of right-wing terrorism has…
Dr. Michael KronaVicarious Trauma From Online Extremism Research – A Call to Action
Academic research into terrorism and online radicalisation has spiked in recent years, arguably caused, in part, by the rise of…
Holger MarcksWhat Makes Far-Right Rhetoric So Dangerous? Narratives of Imperilment as Justification of Violence
Imagine the following: Person A is constantly trying to convince person B that person C wants to kill him. He…
Aaron ZelinHow Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia’s Message Framing Primed Its Members To Become Recruits For The Islamic State
There are a number of reasons why Tunisians joined the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. One underappreciated aspect…
Friederike WegenerThe Globalisation of Right-Wing Copycat Attacks
The World Wide Web unites the world by connecting people from far off places. From Norway to New Zealand, across…
Chelsea Daymonstatus
The Coronavirus and Islamic State Supporters Online
As the world focuses on the spread and containment of the coronavirus (COVID-19), statements on the virus are also appearing…
Moustafa AyadPilgrimage to the Platform: The Repeat Audience for ‘Muslim News’
‘Baqiyya’ The audience of the Islamic State-affiliated Muslim News platform is in the parlance of the group — “baqiyya,” or…
Isabelle van der VegtThe Temporal Evolution of a Far-Right Forum
Radical message boards, large- and small-scale social media platforms, and other Internet fringes are thought to have played a role…
Till BaakenYouTube’s Role as a Platform for Extremism
YouTube is a hugely important platform via which individuals – in particular adolescents – access information about topics of everyday…
Raffaello PantucciAbdullah el Faisal’s Persistent Screed
Ideas never die. At no point does this age old maxim seem more relevant than in the age of the…
Jessica DavisHow Terrorists Use the Internet for Weapons and Component Procurement
When Salman Abedi was buying material to build the bomb he would use to attack the Ariana Grande concert in…
Dr. Eviane LeidigFar-Right Terrorism is Global, but Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India
Last week brought news of a tragic event in Germany with a right-wing terrorist attack in the city of Hanau.…
Moustafa AyadHiding in Plain Site: Islamic State’s ‘Muslim News’
Salafi-jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and Islamic State thrive in ungoverned spaces. Mali is no exception. And neither is its domain…
Linda SchlegelPoints, Rankings & Raiding the Sorcerer’s Dungeon: Top-down and Bottom-up Gamification of Radicalisation and Extremist Violence
The research on gamification, defined as “the use of game elements in non-gaming contexts” usually aimed at facilitating a desirable…
Dr. Alexis HenshawOnline Extremism in Latin America- An Overview
A look at the landscape of online extremism in Latin America stands to add to our overall understanding of this…
Alexander von RosenbachShooting for Impact: Google‘s €10 Million Investment in Countering Online Extremism
What can we do to make our communities and citizens safe from online hate speech and extremist propaganda? At the…
Raphael GluckIslamic State Adjusts Strategy to Remain on Telegram
Could 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
Accelerationism 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
Despite 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
On 3 August 2014, Islamic State swept across the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in a bid to expand its…
Joana CookIncels
In 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
Earlier 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
Communication 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
The 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
In spring 2014 when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a ‘caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria it instigated the largest mobilization of…
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