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Posts tagged with ‘Radicalisation’

  • Mar232021

    No Child’s Play: IS Propaganda Videos and the Recruitment of Children

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    Imagine the horror of seeing a child in a video executing an individual. Islamic State (IS) raised the brutality of…

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  • Mar222021

    Cyber-Enabled Extremism in Australia

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    While still a relatively young and geographically isolated nation state, Australia is no stranger to extremism. Over time, since the…

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  • Mar172021

    Pastel QAnon

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    On 21 July 2020, Twitter Safety announced that they will be taking a stronger enforcement against “behavior that has the…

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  • Mar122021

    The WQmen of QAnon

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    Women play an important part in radical and violent extremist movements; however, since men carry out the majority of violent…

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  • Feb022021

    Singapore: The Lure of the Far-Right

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    The news of the detention of a 16 year old self-radicalised Singaporean (of Protestant faith) who planned to murder Muslim…

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  • Feb012021

    Jihadists at Play

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    When I began working on The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, I used research funds to buy…

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  • Jan182021

    Redpill the “Parler Refugees”: White Supremacist Strategies for Radicalising Trump Supporters on Telegram

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    On 6 January, insurrectionists stormed the US capitol and disrupted the confirmation of election results in the House and Senate;…

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  • Jan182021

    Beyond the ‘LULZ’: Memifying Murder as ‘Meaningful’ Gamification in Far-Right Content

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    Research on the relationship between video games and extremist propaganda has been increasing in the last few years in both…

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  • Dec182020

    Deradicalisation by Videoconference

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    The pandemic has pushed the boundaries of what is possible (and appropriate) on videoconferencing applications. Despite strange side-effects like Zoom…

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  • Dec022020

    Of Challengers and Socialisers: How User Types Moderate the Appeal of Extremist Gamified Applications

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    Recent years have seen an increase in the gamification of digital extremist content and discussions around the potential implications of…

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