- Mar162023GNET Team
Unpacking the Incelosphere: In-group Categorisation, Incel Purity, and Competition
in InsightsIntroduction In the near-decade since the first publicly recognised act of incel violence in 2014, at the hands of 22-year-old…
- Mar132023Rutger Sjoerts
Incel PR: The Rebranding of the Incel Community & the Role of Media and Academia
in InsightsCertain usernames and names of forums have been removed to avoid amplifying their voices and platforms. In August 2021, Jake…
- Feb152023Harrison Pates
The Dangers of Pseudohistorical Conspiracy Theories
in InsightsIntroduction In November 2022, Netflix released their controversial documentary-style series entitled Ancient Apocalypse. It featured the musings of Graham Hancock,…
- Feb092022Sahar Rasoulikolamaki
Islamic State’s Quest for Legitimacy through Contradictory Messaging
in InsightsLeveraging upon cyberspace has been a seemingly effortless and integral part of Islamic State’s (IS) tactics since its inception to…
- May122021J.M. Berger
The Out-Group in the In-Group
in InsightsExtremists hate people who do not share their group identity. If scholars of terrorism and extremism can agree on little…
- Apr092021Dr. Antoine Jardin
IS Perception of Far-Right and Far-Left Political Movements in the West
in InsightsThis note depicts core elements of the jihadi thoughts on the political polarisation of western societies and induced opportunities for…
- Mar252021Dr. Michael Krona
Hyper-Reality, Identity and Mediatisation – A Sociological Reflection on the Pro-Islamic State Online Community
in InsightsDuring the opening months of 2021 several pro-Islamic State unofficial media outlets have produced and shared a vast amount of…
- Jan122021Kabir Taneja
Intersection of Social Media, Foreign Policy and Extreme Narratives: An Example from India
in InsightsIn 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world and states struggled to contain the economic fallout of shutting…
- Nov182020Exan Sharief
Offline Meets Online: A Fused Messaging Ecosystem in Response to Violent Extremism in Mindanao
in InsightsConflict in Mindanao is rooted in both socioeconomic factors and identity politics. At present, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim…
- Oct212020Dr. Michael Krona
Revisiting the Ecosystem of Islamic State’s ‘Virtual Caliphate’
in InsightsThe current ‘post-caliphate’ era of Islamic State (IS) has been widely discussed in recent years, following the organisation’s loss of…
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