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Women, Violent Extremism and the Internet: Empower ...

On March 6th the CIC National Capital Branch, in cooperation with the SecDev Foundation, hosted the event, Women, Violent Extremism and the Internet: Empowering Prevention; Dealing with Risk.  

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Violent Extremism on-line: Drivers, Evidence and a ...

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Extreme Dialogue: Social media Target Audience Ana ...

2016

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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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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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Review of Social Science Literature on Radicalizat ...

2014

This 2014 paper reviewed relevant empirical social science studies to gain perspective on two questions: 1) Are there accepted risk factors or indicators that signal increasing radicalization on the pathway to violent extremism?

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#Greenbirds: Measuring Importance and Influence in ...

2014

This 2014 report by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR) presents the findings of a 12-month study on the social media profiles of 190 Western and European foreign fighters.

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Combining Social Network Analysis and Sentiment An ...

2009

This paper explores the use of crawling global social networking platforms to undercover previously unknown radicalized individuals. To prove the utility of this process the authors collect a YouTube dataset from a group that potentially has a radicalizing agenda.

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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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