Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and the Internet: Present and Future Trends University of Amsterdam, 20 – 21 August
Session One:
Extremist Dualities: Online vs Offline,
Homogeneity vs Heterogeneity
- Boots on the ground? Online and Offline Identities of the Extreme Right
Bradley Galloway (University of the Fraser Valley and AVE Network), Ryan Scrivens (Concordia University and VOX-Pol), Barbara Perry (University
of Ontario Institute of Technology), Garth Davies and Richard Frank (Simon Fraser University)
Online Radicalisation 1
- The Role of Agency and Self-Efficacy in Processes of Violent Radicalisation
Linda Schlegel (Konrad Adenauer Foundation), Till Baaken (Violence Prevention Network) - Violent Extremism in Bangladesh: Analyzing the Interplay Between Online and Offline Worlds
Md Saimum Parvez (University of Sydney) - Online Radicalisation: Towards the Generation of Gold Standard Datasets
Miriam Fernandez (Knowledge Media Institute), Harith Alani (The Open University)
Session Two:
Old Wine, New Bottles?
- The Roles of ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Media Tools and Technologies in the Facilitation of Violent Extremism and Terrorism
Ryan Scrivens (Concordia University and VOX-Pol), Maura Conway (Dublin City University and VOX-Pol) - Un’like’ly Alliances of Keyboard Warriors? Ulster Loyalists and the British Extreme-Right
Shahed Warreth and Stephen Herron (Dublin City University and VOX-Pol) Lisa McInerney (Dublin City University)
Keynote Address:
Mina al-Lami (BBC Monitoring)
Session Three:
Online Hate and Conspiracy on
4Chan, Facebook, and Reddit
- Upvoting extremism: An Assessment of Extreme Right Discourse on Reddit
Tiana Gaudette and Garth Davies (Simon Fraser University), Ryan Scrivens (Concordia University and VOX-Pol)
‘Real World’ Events
- A Nice Attack? The Construction of Articles About Terrorist Attacks on Wikipedia
Oscar Ricci (University of Milano-Bicocca), Francisco Ardini (University of Genoa) - Decoding the Alt Right: Using Natural Language
Processing to Identify Alt Right Commentary on Social Media Simon Roth and Fabio Votta (University of Stuttgart)
Session Four:
Image Propaganda
- Information Space Conflicts: Fighting Over the Image
Moran Yarchi (IDC)
Countering Online Extremism 1
- Countering Online Extremism as Soft Power and Crime Prevention
Kieran Hardy (Griffith Criminology Institute) - The Efficacy of Online Communicative Inoculation as Counter-Radicalization: Experimental Evidence
Kurt Braddock (Pennsylvania State University)
Session Five:
Gendered and Other Identities and
Roles in Jihadist and Far-right Online
Content and Contexts 2
- Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice? Exploring the Online Roles of Women in the Far-right Extremist Movement
Ryan Scrivens (Concordia University and VOX-Pol), Lorraine Bowman-Grieve (Waterford Institute of Technology), Richard Frank (Simon Fraser
University), Maura Conway (DCU and VOX-Pol) - Jihadist Brides, Victims of the West? The Role of Women in Terrorism as Suggested by Extremist Online Propaganda
Valerie Hase, Teodora Djukaric and Vanessa Hylland (University of Zurich)
Video Propaganda
- Radicalization Narratives in Online-Videos: Analysing the Potential for De-Radicalization
Alina Arnhold and Sybille Reinke de Buitrago (Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen) - Propaganda and Para-sociality: A Relationshiporiented Analysis of the Islamic State’s John Cantlie Videos
Sophia Klewer (Universität Siegen)
Session Six:
Countering Online Extremism 2
- Countering (Violent) Political Extremism Online: A Holistic Perspective
Sally Hohnstein and Michaela Glaser (Deutsches Jugendinstitut) - Struggle Over Scripture: Using Innovative Tools to Understand and Counter Extremist Narratives
Milo Comerford and Rachel Bryson (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change) - Censorship and Take-downs: How Legislation Intended to Disrupt Online Extremism Could Potentially Contribute to Radicalization
Pina Marisa Witt (European Inter-University Centre)
Banning, Censoring, Moderating
and Their Impacts
- The Double-Edged Sword of Banning Extremists from Social Media
Sam Jackson (University of Albany)