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Charting a New Course: Thought for Action Kit

2015

This resource is a short e-book type document by the pilot project “Charting a New Course: Women Preventing Violent Extremism” led by the U.S. Institute of Peace. The project aimed to engage a discussion on key issues related to the role of women and preventing violent extremism (PVE).

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Al Qaeda Recruits Terrorists on Facebook

December 2010

This very short 2010 article presents an early example of extremist and terrorist organizations using social media for recruitment, in this case, Al Qaeda using Facebook.

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Political Participation Frames in a Gay Community

2014

This article is based on a netnographic research project that studied political discussions in the Swedish LGBT online community Qruiser. The aim of the project was to understand what motivated participation in political forum threads on Qruiser.

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Sweden: when hate becomes the norm

September 2013

This 2013 article works within a framework of netnography and provides an insightful look at the anti-foreigner climate encountered by the author in Sweden.

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A Lexicon-Based Approach for Hate Speech Detection

2015

This paper addresses several of the key issues facing creation of a classifier for hate-speech on forums, blogs, or other areas of web discourse.

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Automatic Detection of Cyber-Recruitment by Violen ...

August 2014

This article presents methods for identifying the recruitment activities of violent groups within extremist social media websites.

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Hate Speech, Machine Classification and Statistica ...

2014

This article deals with a supervised machine learning text classifier, trained and tested to distinguish between hateful and/or antagonistic response with a focus on race, ethnicity or religion; and more general responses.

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Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right an ...

August 2015

This source pertains to the method by which extreme right and hate groups take advantage of user-generated video content websites’ recommender systems to pander to wider, more susceptible audiences.

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Jihad Trending: A Comprehensive Analysis of Online ...

May 2014

This report hopes to contribute to developing research in the ever-evolving arena of radicalisation with a particular focus on the role of the Internet.

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Pedlars of Hate: The Violent Impact of the Europea ...

2012

This report analyzes over one hundred cases from 2010 through 2012 as it describes the various stages that far right movements move through, from peddling hate online to violence and death on the streets.

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This portal gathers an annotated collection of recent research on the ways in which social media and new technologies may be leveraged in the fight against violent extremism

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