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Antigypsyism online: Spirals of hate, racist framing and right-wing extremist propaganda as a risk for young users

jugendschutz.net;Central Council of German Sinti & Roma;Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti & Roma (2018), 7 pp.

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Islamism on the Internet: 2017 Report

Patrick Frankenberger, Ingrid Hofmann, Flemming Ipsen, Nava Zarabian

Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2018), 19 pp.

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Islamists between beauty bloggers and pop stars: Aesthetics and lifestyle to lure young people on Instagram

jugendschutz.net (2018), 3 pp.

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Loving Hate: Anti-Muslim Extremism, Radical Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization

Maik Fielitz, Julia Ebner, Jakob Guhl, Matthias Quent

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 ... iprocity of hate that may serve to intensify processes of individual and group radicalization. Our study presents the first systematic analysis of the interplay between both forms of extremism that plays out on different places on the Internet. It provides direct evidence showing that Islamist and far-right movements converge at different levels and mutually amplify one another. The analysis focuses on measuring the online interaction between extremist content, individuals and events. Overall, over 10,000 Islamist and far-right Facebook posts and over one million German anti-Muslim tweets between 1 January 2013 and 30 November 2017 were analyzed for this study. Additionally, we conducted three months of ethnographic research into encrypted pro-IS and pro-Al-Qaeda groups on Telegram as well as into far-right chat groups. Key Findings Radical Islamism and anti-Muslim racism, which manifest themselves in the form of far-right extremism and right-wing populism exhibit a symbiotic relationship. In the context of glocal interaction patterns, the far right operates as a national sphere of resonance for international jihadism. Both negate and dismantle basic democratic values such as the inviolability of human dignity and religious freedom. What’s more, racism against Muslims paves the way for radicalization through Islamic fundamentalists. We identified three key patterns that reveal common worldviews and argumentative resemblance: First, the demonization of enemies based on a clear distinction between friend and foe. Second, the victimization of one’s own group as both sides take advantage of the alleged discrimination of their own group and the constructed dominance of the other. Third, conspiracy, which is the basic explanation provided for why the respective milieus do not share their exclusionary claim to truth. The alleged systematic blindness caused by the Jews or fake news are needed to balance the dissonance between claims and reality as well as to contribute to demonizing other groups." (Executive summary) more

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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.

"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester ... more

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Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and MEND

Shola Abidemi Olabode

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiv, 256 pp.

"This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of confl ... more

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Youth Led Guide on Prevention of Violent Extremism Through Education: #youthwagingpeace

Carolyn Nash, Yulia Nesterova, Kenneth Primrose, Wing Yu Alice Chan, Paul A. Rios, María José Velásquez Flores, Aniqah Zowmi

New Delhi: UNESCO;Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) (2017), 324 pp.

"This guide is driven by the need not to add to the library of information on violent extremism but to underscore a message often missed: to reach young people effectively, we must respect their ability to grasp the reality of injustice, intolerance, and inequity [...] we found that three key messag ... more

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Media, Youth and Radicalization: The Role of Media and Digital Literacy in Countering Violent Extremism

Jad Melki

Beirut: Lebanese American University (LAU), Institute of Media Research and Training (IMRT);Media and Digital Literacy Acedemy of Beirut (MDLAB) (2017), 14 pp.

"This preliminary technical report examines the relationship between media uses of Lebanese youth and their potential attraction to extremism—broadly conceived. The study focuses on school students aged 14 to 18 and their teachers. It is based on 16 focus groups distributed across the country and ... more

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Digital Media Literacy in Conflicts: The Increasing Role of Social Media in South Sudan

Anke Fiedler, Stephen Kovats

In: International Handbook of Media Literacy Education

Belinha S. De Abreu; Paul Mihailidis; Alice Y. L. Lee; Jad Melki; Julian McDougall (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 368-379

"In this chapter we have discussed a number of concrete strategies and practical examples on how to implement digital media literacy projects even in a difficult political and socio-cultural context like South Sudan. These are based in developing a holistic approach that considers citizen interactio ... more

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More Than Propaganda, a Review of Boko Haram's Public Messages

Omar Mahmood

Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (2017), 31 pp.

"Although not always consistent, Boko Haram has ensured its narrative is publicly disseminated, which is revealing for a group that is extremely secretive. Messaging creates awareness about the group and its activities, which can tie into recruitment. Messaging demonstrates a clear pattern of expand ... more

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Hass im Internet: Zivilitätsverluste in der digitalen Kommunikation

Kai Hafez

Communicatio Socialis, volume 50, issue 3 (2017), pp. 318-333

"Menschenfeindliche und rassistische Äußerungen (Hate Speech) gegenüber religiösen und ethnischen Gruppen im Internet haben sich weltweit massiv ausgebreitet. Das Internet ist weniger ein Ort der multikulturellen Begegnung als des aggressiven Kulturkampfes mit weitreichenden Folgen für gesellsc ... more

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Online Hate Speech in the European Union: A Discourse-Analytic Perspective

Stavros Assimakopoulos, Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar (eds.)

Springer (2017), viii, 90 pp.

"The central objective of this volume has been to show that legislation against hate speech in the EU may be an effective first step towards combatting the phenomenon, but it might not be adequate on its own to contain the present situation. This is because hate speech has multiple ways of being exp ... more

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Youth and Violent Extremism on Social Media: Mapping the Research

Séraphin Alava, Divina Frau-Meigs, Ghayda Hassan

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 161 pp.

"Based on a bibliometric and scientific study of research conducted in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Arab world, parts of Africa and Asia on the links between the use of social media and the phenomena of radicalization, the Report analyzes more than 550 studies published i ... more

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A Summary of the Study “Religious Extremism in the Media”

Rrapo Zguri

Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2017), 8 pp.

"The monitoring and the analysis carried out for the purpose of this study found out that the media and the institutional channels of mass communication of religious communities have behaved correctly while carrying out their duties, and have established a climate of communication that emits and fos ... more

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Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
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Thomas H. Johnson

London: Hurst (2017), xxxvi, 376 pp.

"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the infor ... more

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How Jihadists Recruit Girls and Young Women: Web Propaganda for Terror and Violence is Tailored to Female Target Group

jugendschutz.net (2017), 3 pp.

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As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance

Philip Seib

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xi, 189 pp.

"Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organi ... more

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Online/social media as a pathway towards violent extremism in East Africa

William Robert Avis

Birmingham: GSDRC, University of Birmingham (2016), 15 pp.

"Key findings include: The Internet can play a role in the radicalisation process; There are few examples of individuals radicalising entirely online, but there are signs that this could increase over time; There is less evidence of the internet’s role in recruitment to terrorist networks or the u ... more

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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State

Jacob Olidort

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.

"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons ... more

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Jihadists Make Telegram Messaging App a Recruiting Tool: The 'Islamic State' Glorifies Terrorism and Turns to German Teenagers

Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2016), 4 pp.

"An app called Telegram is the new hot thing for jihadists to disseminate their propaganda. Terror organizations like the 'Islamic State' (IS) also use this app to win over German us-ers. jugendschutz.net documented a vast amount of graphic content like beheading videos – anyone can use his smartp ... more

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