Keine Entwarnung
Nachdem im Jahr 2024 beobachtet werden konnte, wie sich eine neue Generation Neonazis formierte und vermehrt gegen CSD-Veranstaltungen mobilisierte, haben im Jahr 2025 rechtsextreme (Jugend-)Gruppen e...
Keine Entwarnung: Die durchschnittliche Teilnehmendenzahl sank zwar, insgesamt fanden jedoch 2025 mehr rechtsextreme Anti-CSD-Aufmärsche statt als im Vorjahr. Die Mobilisierung bleibt weiterhin dynamisch und bedrohlich, wie unser neues Research Paper zeigt: cemas.io/publikatione...
21.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 56 🔁 42 💬 1 📌 2
‘Ask your daughters’: Merz defends his call for large-scale deportations
German chancellor is accused of taking a page from extremist parties with ‘dangerous’ rhetoric on immigration
Like the US much vaunted "checks and balances, it "looks like Germany's so-called “firewall,” which bars cooperation in government with the AfD, is on its way out or at the very least is now up for debate. #LettuceShelflife www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
21.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Promotional image from the University of Bath depicting Professor Laura Smith standing in a modern office environment, with text overlay that reads, 'How Bath is shaping social policy through digital security research.' Research Impact logo is also visible.
Research at Bath is creating a more innovative, safe, secure and resilient #digital society.
Learn how work in @idsbbath.bsky.social is keeping people safe online.
https://stories.bath.ac.uk/research-with-impact/how-baths-idsb-is-shaping-social-policy-through-digital-security-research/index.html
10.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Study: ‘Most People with Long COVID Are Their Own Doctors’: Self-Tracking and Online Patient Groups as Pathways to Challenging Epistemic Injustice.
Published: July 20, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
22.08.2025 07:38 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
07.07.2025 12:41 — 👍 79 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 3
Looking forward to see this timely book come together! I'm very excited to contribute a chapter about video analysis
01.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to be able to bring together esteemed colleagues from different disciplines: Atte Oksanen, Olivia Brown, Darja Wischerath, Stephane Baele, Javier Torregrosa, Charlie Stoeldraaijers, @joncollins.bsky.social, @lizzypearson.bsky.social, Harley Williamson, Miriam Fernandez and Maria Vau
01.07.2025 07:53 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I am pleased to share that @isabellevdv.bsky.social, @ryanscrivens.bsky.social and I have just signed a contract with @uclpress.bsky.social to co-edit an open-access book that will discuss ‘Methods for Studying Extremism and Terrorism Online’.
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01.07.2025 07:53 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Rage against the machine: Exploring violence and emotion in conspiracy narratives on Parler – Esteban Morales
[It has been a while, but...] New annotated resource on #SocialMediaViolence:
Rage against the machine: Exploring violence and emotion in conspiracy narratives on Parler, by @darja.bsky.social et al.
Read my notes here: esteban-morales.com/lit-review-v...
12.06.2025 08:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A chart showing cancelled NIH grants
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
04.06.2025 14:29 — 👍 1158 🔁 574 💬 17 📌 32
Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging - Esteban Morales, Jaigris Hodson, Victoria O’Meara, Anatoliy Gruzd, Philip Mai, 2025
While digital platforms foster a sense of community and identity, they also facilitate harmful exclusionary practices. In this context, toxic and hateful speech...
I am happy to share my latest article, now published in New Media & Society: “Online toxic speech as positioning acts: Hate as discursive mechanisms for othering and belonging.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
With @jhodson.bsky.social, Victoria O'Meara, @gruzd.ca and @philipmai.com
28.05.2025 13:28 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
🚨 New article with the brilliant @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social
We dive into the online community of right-wing body builders (RWBB) 🥚🥩🥛
open access: sciendo.com/article/10.2...
22.05.2025 08:00 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1
Incredibly excited to be a part of this event! Come check out everything to do with ECR networks in the space of political violence and extremism. @VOX_Pol is represented by Brenna and myself with the next gen network.
03.02.2025 16:28 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe
Entmenschlichung läuft auch (nicht nur) über Sprache. Zum demokratischen Anstand gehört, dass auch die Begriffe, mit denen über Migration gesprochen wird, wieder zu ihrem Recht kommen. Das "Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe" leistet hier super Arbeit. Kann ich nur empfehlen
www.migrationsbegriffe.de
31.01.2025 09:05 — 👍 76 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 5
Call for papers for a special issue. Special issue title is Responding to socio-political challenges online through radical or extreme narratives and alternative forms of collective identities. Guest Editors: Theofilos Gkinopoulos (Behavior in Crisis Lab, Institute of Psychology,
Jagiellonian University), Malgorzata Kossowska (Behavior in Crisis Lab, Institute of
Psychology, Jagiellonian University), Ana Guinote (University College London), Jesper
Strömbäck (University of Gothenburg)
Special Issue Alert!
How do digital & social media fuel alternative identities, extreme narratives & online communities in times of crisis?
Submit your work exploring their role in propaganda, misinformation, and reshaping society!
ispp.org/wp/wp-conten...
@polpsyispp.bsky.social #polisky
30.01.2025 14:18 — 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 4
We're excited to announce the launch of Bath Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour (@idsbbath.bsky.social) under the leadership of co-directors Professor Laura Smith and Professor Adam Joinson.
Find out more here ⤵️
https://buff.ly/40T8izm
29.01.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A new study from @emilygodwin.bsky.social and @britdavidson.bsky.social shows the sinister side to memes, revealing their role in strengthening online communities of conspiracy theorists and helping to spread harmful beliefs
www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
27.01.2025 16:40 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Call for applications: PhD summer School Studying Online Extremism
- C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety (2nd edition)
📣 Call for applications 📣 @audreygagnon.bsky.social & Nicola Mathieson are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
24.01.2025 14:16 — 👍 35 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 6
Brilliant new research from my colleague @emilygodwin.bsky.social about memes and conspiracy narratives!
27.01.2025 09:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Key contributions:
• Develops a new theoretical framework for understanding memes as cultural representations
• Demonstrates how memes help maintain community cohesion and alleviate tensions in online spaces
• Advances a revised methodology for studying memetic communication
27.01.2025 09:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I am excited to share my latest research paper published in Social Media + Society, titled 'Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis' and co-authored with @britdavidson.bsky.social, Tim Hill, and Adam Joinson.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
27.01.2025 09:40 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 3
Call for applications: PhD summer School Studying Online Extremism
- C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
Studying Online Extremism: Ethics, Methods and Personal Safety (2nd edition)
📣 Call for applications 📣 Nicola Mathieson and I are collaborating with @crexuio.bsky.social and VOX-Pol to organize a PhD Summer School on the study of online right-wing extremism, to be held in Oslo from 9-13 June 2025! For more info and to apply: www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
24.01.2025 13:55 — 👍 18 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 2
Inaugural Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, 9 – 10 June 2025
New and Old Challenges of Populism and Radicalism
📯 Introducing a ✨ NEW conference ✨ for researchers specialising in extremism, democracy, and populism
🥇 Inaugural Conference of @ecpr-ead.bsky.social
🕰️ New and Old Challenges of #Populism and #Radicalism
💂♂️ Hosted by @qmul.ac.uk
📅 9–10 June 2025
✍️ Submit your Panel or Paper by 3 March
24.01.2025 12:01 — 👍 60 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 16
Emotions and Violence Legitimation in Conspiracy Narratives - VOX - Pol
By Darja Wischerath This blog post is a condensed version of a recently published article in New Media + Society. To read the full article click here. The mainstreaming of conspiracy theories has coin...
🎊 Starting the new year off right on the VOX-Pol blog with a month dedicated to early career researchers’ works! This week we have @darja.bsky.social and her recent (fantastic) publication. Tune in each Wednesday of this month for an ECR piece as part of our NextGen Network
voxpol.eu/emotions-and...
08.01.2025 13:55 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Independent EU-focused NGO whose mission is to raise awareness on #disinformation & contribute to a better information landscape.
We are the Political Psychology Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/political-psychology
Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Art, Activism and Accountability
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Head of Marketing, Business & Society Division - School of Management, Uni of Bath | Researching responsible business, comms & markets w/interest in digital | ERB at Organization Studies, Business & Society
Social psychologist into conspiracy theories, jazz, and video games - not necessarily in this order of priorities.
FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology (Université libre de Bruxelles).
Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
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Research Fellow & Consultant - Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
The Counter Terrorism Research Group (CTRG) are a group of researchers at UCL who analyse terrorism, extremism, and radicalisation. Follow to keep up to date with our research.
Lecturer at UCL, Department of Security and Crime Science | UKRN local chapter co-lead | research extremism/hate/terrorism online and offline
PhD from KCL. Researching far right, victimhood & antisemitism in DE, FR, AUT.
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PhD student in Psychology; Interested in psychosis + social cognition, metacognition, and disorganization. 🧠
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Professor Emeritus at UCBerkeley. Best-selling author of The ALL NEW Don’t Think of an Elephant.
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, network state, crypto cartels.
Writing a book: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global Democracy.”
The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com
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FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy.
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