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What analysis of the Islamic State’s messaging keeps missing
by Haroro Ingram Countering Islamic State “strategic communications” is one of the most pressing national security concerns facing Western governments. Developing more nuanced understanding of the...
View ArticlePressuring Platforms to Censor Content is Wrong Approach to Combatting Terrorism
By Scott Craig and Emma Llansó The UK government has published a new counter-extremism strategy outlining the steps it intends to take to counter extremist ideologies in British society. In an...
View ArticleVOX-Pol Contributes to International Roundtable Discussion on Countering...
Factors underlying violent extremism and radicalisation that lead to terrorism and ways to effectively address this threat in Central Asia and beyond were the focus of an international roundtable...
View ArticleHow ISIS Supporters Filter Extremism Through Instagram
By Aabid Shafi ISIS’ social media capabilities are well known. The effectiveness with which the group makes use of social media to recruit new fighters and spread its propaganda has set off an alarm...
View ArticleAssessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist...
The Oxford Internet Institute’s Ian Brown and MIT’s Josh Cowls co-authored the VOX-Pol report entitled Check the Web: Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material,...
View ArticleDoes the media say too much when reporting on terrorism?
By Javier Delgado Rivera News coverage of investigations into terrorist attacks raise concerns about whether the media goes too far in reporting police findings that may be of some help to bloodthirsty...
View ArticleTerrorists’ Use of Messaging Applications
By Matthew Francis and Emma Barrett Terrorists and criminals, like the rest of us, need to communicate and, like the rest of us, they look out for ways of communicating that meet their particular...
View ArticleVOX-Pol participates in ISA Annual Convention 2016 in Atlanta
Researchers from VOX-Pol Coordinator institution Dublin City University made a series of contributions at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, which...
View ArticleWest’s de-radicalisation strategy needs rethink to effectively fight ISIS,...
Dr. Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Head of Research and Information at VOX-Pol partner ICSR, had said more needs to be done on a region/country specific basis as part of the West’s de-radicalisation...
View ArticleOn social media, ISIS uses modern cultural images to spread anti-modern values
By Javier Lesaca The so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has emerged in less than two years as one of the major security challenges for the global community. At the same time, this terrorist group has...
View ArticleCould encryption ‘backdoors’ safeguard privacy and fight terror online?
By Prof. Keith Martin Since so much of life has moved online, a clash has emerged between the opposing values of internet freedom, and internet control. Should the internet be a public arena free of...
View ArticleVox-Pol Pre-Conference Workshop 2
Title Human Reasoning Meets Machine Learning: Hands-on Workshop Using Mixed-Media Analytics Tools on Violent Online Extremism Data. Convener Lisa McInerney – VOX-Pol Programme Manager, and a Research...
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How ISIS’s language changed over time: More concern with females and more...
By Matteo Vergani We (myself and Ana-Maria Bliuc) just published a brief research-paper in the Italian magazine “Security, Terrorism and Society“. We used the computerized text analysis program LIWC...
View ArticleVOX-POL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 1
Title Python for Social Scientists Date and time Wednesday, 22 June at 9:00am Conveners Prof. Padraig Cunningham, Dr. Derek Greene, and Dr. Tania Malik – School of Computer Science, University College...
View ArticleVOX-Pol Participation in RAN CoE Research Seminar ‘Research on...
Identifying key knowledge gaps in the area of preventing violent extremism was the main focus of a recent EU Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence (RAN CoE) research seminar in Vienna...
View ArticleBook Review: Islamic State – The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan
By Daniel Falkiner Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate provides detailed answers to a number of pressing questions: What exactly is ISIS? Where did it come from? Who is behind it? How does it...
View ArticleGonna get myself connected: Social media as a facilitation mechanism
By Timothy Holman “I think it’s — there are several networks. There are several facilitators. There are plenty of ways to get information back and forth: go through mosques, go through the Internet, go...
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How Jabhat Al Nusra Uses Twitter to Spread Propaganda
Twitter has become a key social media platform used by non-state actors in Syria to send propaganda to the rest of the world. For the most part Twitter has done a good job of clamping down on ISIS...
View ArticleCountering Lone Wolf Terrorism: Weak Signals and Online Activities
By Lisa Kaati and Fredrik Johansson Lone wolf terrorists can come in a variety of shapes and backgrounds and they are in general very hard to detect before they attack. As argued by previous research,...
View ArticleVOX-POL NEWSLETTER 3(2) MAY 2016
Welcome to Vol. 3, Iss. 2 of the VOX-Pol Newsletter. We hope to see many of you at our 22 – 24 June 2016 conference in Dublin. The draft lineup is now online HERE. Register HERE to attend. If you have...
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