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Online Responses to Terrorist Attacks: A #niceattack Case Study – Part 1: The...
This blog post and a follow-up next week analyse Twitter activity following the terrorist attack that took place in Nice, France on 14 July, 2016 and associated real-world events during the ensuing...
View ArticleJoint INFOCORE, MeCoDem, VOX-Pol Workshop on Social Media, Conflict and...
VOX-Pol, in conjunction with two other EU FP7-funded projects, INFOCORE and MeCoDem, will hold a joint workshop themed “Social Media, Conflict and Democracy: Utopian Visions, Dystopian Futures and...
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Online Responses to Terrorist Attacks: A #niceattack Case Study – Part 2: The...
This blog post is a follow-up to last week’s post on Twitter activity following the terrorist attack that took place in Nice, France, on 14 July, 2016 and associated real-world events during the...
View ArticleVOX-POL COORDINATOR TO CONTRIBUTE TO DISCUSSION PANEL ON ARTISTIC LICENSE AT...
VOX-Pol’s Cordinator, Prof. Maura Conway, will contribute to a panel discussion over different approaches to extremist material taken by museums, search engines, religions, academia, counter-extremist...
View ArticleSome recent trends in the use of the Internet/ICT for terrorist purposes –...
The following is the first of three blog posts reporting on discussions at a workshop held in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland on 25 August 2016 under the auspices of...
View ArticleSome Recent Trends in the Use of the Internet/ICT for Terrorist Purposes –...
The following is the second of three blog posts reporting on discussions at a workshop held in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland on 25 August 2016 under the auspices of...
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VOX-Pol Newsletter 3(4) November 2016
Welcome to Vol. 3 Issue 4 of the VOX-Pol Newsletter. If you have colleagues or friends who may be interested in the content of this newsletter or any events and research carried out by VOX-Pol, please...
View ArticleNATO Science for Peace and Security-funded Advanced Research Workshop on...
A NATO Science for Peace and Security-funded Advanced Research Workshop on ‘Terrorist Use of the Internet: Assessment and Response’, jointly organised by VOX-Pol and the University of Swansea’s...
View ArticleSome Recent Trends in the Use of the Internet/ICT for Terrorist Purposes –...
The following is the third of three blog posts reporting on discussions at a workshop held in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland on 25 August 2016 under the auspices of...
View ArticleJoint INFOCORE, MeCoDEM, VOX-Pol workshop on Social Media, Conflict and...
VOX-Pol, in conjunction with two other EU FP7-funded projects, INFOCORE and MeCoDem, held a joint workshop themed “Social Media, Conflict and Democracy: Utopian Visions, Dystopian Futures and Pragmatic...
View ArticleIndian Response to Online Extremism
The United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in July 2016 highlights the need to counter extremist narratives online. In the recent past, extremist content, usually content aiding terrorist...
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Programming human beings to build a hate-free Internet
This year’s wild presidential campaign was not only a test of two very different politicians but of humanity in general. Because social media is now far more entrenched than four years ago, we were...
View ArticleWho is winning the Syrian digital war?
By Amarnath Amarasingam The Syrian war has been, for good and often for ill, an incubator for developing new tools and strategies for digital conflict. Whether any of these actors “win” the Syrian war,...
View ArticleVOX-Pol Participation in Second Meeting of EU Internet Forum
On 8 December, VOX-Pol’s Project Manager, Ms. Lisa McInerney, presented a selection of VOX-Pol research at the second meeting of the EU Internet Forum in Brussels. The meeting was convened by Mr....
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A Radical Defence for Democracy: Allow Space for Anti-Democratic Speech
By Tobias Gemmerli This article was originally published by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 10 November 2016. Our democratic culture can act as a safeguard against...
View ArticleTakedown Collaboration by Private Companies Creates Troubling Precedent
By Emma Llansó On 5 December, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube announced their intent to begin collaborating on the removal of terrorist propaganda across their services. Center for Democracy...
View ArticleThe Online Growth of White Nationalism
By Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan White nationalism, which advocates against multiculturalism in favour of an ethnic and cultural state linked to a mythologised European identity, has become an...
View ArticleLet’s make platform capitalism more accountable
By Mark Graham What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? You might think that the answer is that they are all technology companies. But actually it is that they all pretend to be technology...
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Interpreting Data About Islamic State Online
By Ali Fisher Challenging ISIS has little to do with their number of followers, or the decline in their number of messages. This type of tactical-level data can indicate success, but genuine impact can...
View ArticleThe Law that Could Allow Trump to Shut Down the U.S. Internet
By Sean Lawson In a pair of recent essays, Timothy Edgar, the academic director of law and policy at Brown University‘s Executive Master in Cybersecurity program, has outlined the legal basis for how a...
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