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A qualitative enquiry into the adoption, use and a ...

2014

This resource is the short research proposal of a paper presented at the 2014 Academy of Marketing Conference in Bournemouth, UK. The paper aimed to analyze British South Asian young adults' adoption, use and appropriation of smartphones.

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Radicalisation in the Digital Era: The Use of the ...

2013

This paper presents the results from exploratory primary research into the role of the Internet in the radicalization of 15 terrorists and extremists in the UK.

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Using Behavioural Indicator to Help Detect Potenti ...

2013

This report reviews the scientific literature relating to observable, individual-level behavioral indicators that might — along with other information — help detect potential violent attacks.

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White Paper – The Role of Prevent in Countering ...

December 2014

This white paper addresses the role of the UK government, social media companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) in monitoring and policing the Internet for extremist and/or terrorism related content.

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Who Tweets? Deriving the Demographic Characteristi ...

March 2015

This paper evaluates two tools for the automated identification of demographic and occupational data from the profile descriptions of Twitter users in the United Kingdom.

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"Social Media, Online Networks and the Preven ...

2014

In 2013, The SecDev Group undertook a 10-month Kanishka-funded project that set out, in part,  to explore methodologies and technologies for open source social media (OSSM) research and their potential utility for detecting weak signals of radicalization towards violent extremism online.

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Introducing Social Media Intelligence

2012

This paper aims to introduce the British security community to social media intelligence (SOCMINT) in a manner that allows for its professional and structured use as part of the national intelligence framework.

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Detecting Online Extremist Networks Using Open Sou ...

2014

This research note summarizes experimental research conducted by The SecDev Group in 2013, as part of a Public Safety Canada, Kanishka-funded project looking at social media analytics and the prevention of violent extremism.

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Detecting Toxic Content using Open Source Social M ...

2014

This experiment used the Twitter profile of a U.K. national, verified to be an active foreign fighter (FF) in the Syrian civil war, as the seed for constructing a network topology based on social media interactions.

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Assessment of A Foreign Fighter’s Twitter Trajec ...

2014

This summary captures the main findings of a longitudinal content analysis of a known foreign fighter’s (FF) public social media activity for signs of radicalization toward violent extremism.

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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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