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Posts tagged with ‘Gamification’

  • May192025

    Modern-Day Lynchings: The Long History of Gamified White Supremacist Terrorism

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    Introduction When a terrorist opened fire on African Americans at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, in May…

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  • Oct302024

    Northern Spirits: Gamification and Youth Recruitment in the Nordic Region

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    Introduction  Video games are increasingly becoming a fertile ground for exploitation by criminal and extremist networks. A comprehensive report from…

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  • Feb282024

    POV: Wearable Cameras and the Gamification of Lone-Actor Terrorist Violence

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    Introduction In December 2023, a British 22-year-old was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in prison for planning a…

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  • Jun012023

    First-Person Propaganda, First-Person Shooters, and Gamification: A Different View 

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    Introduction In the 1990s, debates raged about whether first-person shooter (FPS) games could cause violence. Following the 1999 Columbine shooting,…

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  • May312023

    Accelerationism Meets Gamification: A Look at the Convergence in the Framing of Online Narratives

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    Petra Regeni is a member of the Extremism and Gaming Research Network (EGRN). EGRN brings together world-leading counter-extremism organisations to develop insights…

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  • Oct172022

    The Venomous Rhetorical Web of Far-Right Terrorists

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    On September 14, 2022, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs questioned current and former executives from…

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  • Jun102022

    The Gamification of Violent Extremism: An Empirical Exploration of the Christchurch Attack

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    This Insight is based on research conducted by the author and Susann Wiedlitzka, the results of which are extensively discussed…

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  • Sep012021

    As You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalisation Processes

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    Videogames, gaming-related content, game aesthetics, gaming (-adjacent) platforms, gamification, and their potential link to digital extremist content and digitally-mediated radicalisation…

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  • Jul122021

    Competing, Connecting, Having Fun: How Gamification Could Make Extremist Content More Appealing

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    Do extremists like to play? A few years ago, this question may have sounded ridiculous. But since the livestreamed attack…

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  • Mar292021

    Let’s Play Prevention: Can P/CVE Turn the Tables on Extremists’ Use of Gamification?

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    In the wake of the attacks in Christchurch, El Paso and Halle, the so-called ‘gamification of terror’ has made headlines…

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