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Reflect your past: Online-Radikalisierung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2019), 5 pp.
"Digitale Kommunikation spielt in unserem Alltag eine immer größere Rolle. Vor allem Jugendliche nutzen insbesondere das Internet zum Austausch mit Freund*innen als Informationsquelle und zur Unterhaltung. Extremistische Akteure wissen das und nutzen Internet-Plattformen und -Dienste zur Kommunika
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Islamist Buzzers: Message Flodding, Offline Outreach, and Astroturfing
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 187-208
"Based on ethnographic research on Islamist buzzers – social media political operators tasked with making particular online conversation subjects trend – in Indonesia, this article details the process of how the proliferation of insensitive message in both the online and offline realms plays a r
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The Neurocognitive Process of Digital Radicalization: A Theoretical Model and Analytical Framework
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 19 (2019), pp. 122-145
"Recent studies suggest that empathy induced by narrative messages can effectively facilitate persuasion and reduce psychological reactance. Although limited, emerging research on the etiology of radical political behavior has begun to explore the role of narratives in shaping an individual’s beli
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Democratic Defense Against Disinformation
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2018), 16 pp.
Responding to ‘hate Speech’: Comparative Overview of Six EU Countries
London: Article 19 (2018), 47 pp.
"This publication presents the comparative overview of the legal framework and practices related to ‘hate speech’ in six Member States of the European Union (EU): Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom. The publication is based on six individual country reports commissio
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A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Disinformation: Report of the Independent High Level Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation
Deep Insights
Luxembourg: European Union (2018), 39 pp.
"In this report, we favour the word “disinformation” over “fake news.” Disinformation, as used in the Report, includes all forms of false, inaccurate, or misleading information designed, presented and promoted to intentionally cause public harm or for profit. Our main message is that the bes
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Freedom of Expression and Religious Hate Speech in Europe
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 191 pp.
"In recent years, the Danish cartoons affair, the Charlie Hebdo murders and the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris have resulted in increasingly strident anti-Islamic speeches by politicians. This raises questions about the limits to freedom of expression and whether this freedom can and should
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Disinformation in Elections
Security and Human Rights, volume 29, issue 1/4 (2018), pp. 24-35
"In recent years there has been increasing attention to the potentially disruptive influence of disinformation on elections. The most common forms of disinformation in elections include the dissemination of ‘fake news’ in order to discredit opponents or to influence the voting process, the falsi
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Dangerous Disinformation
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38
"Intentionally fabricated fake news is an international phenomenon. Digital communication technology is exacerbating the impacts of political propaganda. Counter measures are needed, and they concern many different areas. Multinational tech corporations must be regulated, media users need a solid un
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Loving Hate: Anti-Muslim Extremism, Radical Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization
Jena (DE); London; Berlin: Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ); Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2018), 75 pp.
"This report focuses on the interactional dynamics between anti-Muslim extremists and radical Islamists in Germany and beyond. It reveals ideological underpinnings, approaches to mobilization and communication patterns, which all prove to be analogous on both sides, and it places emphasis on the rec
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Public Service Media and Information Disorder. Public Media Institutions at a Crossroads: Visions, Strategies, Tactics
Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2018), 29 pp.
"The Center for Media, Data and Society has curated a series of lectures addressing the challenges and the future of public media titled Public Media Institutions at a Crossroads: Visions, Strategies, Tactics. The speakers and themes have included a multi-dimensional outlook on what PSM institutions
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The Way, the Truth and the Life: Asian Religious Communication in the Post-Truth Climate
Religion and Social Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 19-40
"This paper proposes that Asian religions can address the challenges of the post-truth mindset by resorting to powerful images within their traditions to communicate within and across traditions in order to promote religious unity and harmony. It asserts that the images employed by Jesus to refer to
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Human Rights Online
Amsterdam: International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) (2018), 23 pp.
Islamism on the Internet: 2017 Report
Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2018), 19 pp.
"This research is aimed at assessing national vulnerabilities and preparedness to counteract foreign-led disinformation in 14 countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The Visegrad states (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia
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