TASM Breakout Sessions 2022

TASM Breakout Sessions 2022

Terrorism and Social Media Conference Swansea University 28-29 June 2022

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Breakout Sessions

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Table of Contents Breakout Session 1 (Overview) ......................................................................................... 4 Breakout Session 1 (Abstracts) ......................................................................................... 6 Panel 1A: Extremism and the Covid pandemic .......................................................................... 6 Panel 1B: Online interactions ................................................................................................... 7 Panel 1C: Actors and identities ................................................................................................. 9 Panel 1D: Curating Extremism: Workshop on Housing, Organising, and Researching Primary Documents ............................................................................................................................ 11 Breakout Session 2 (Overview) ........................................................................................12 Breakout Session 2 (Abstracts) ........................................................................................14 Panel 2A: Mapping extremism................................................................................................ 14 Panel 2B: U.S. elections and the far-right ................................................................................ 15 Panel 2C: Looking beyond social media................................................................................... 17 Panel 2D: Video-Gaming & Violent Extremism: An Exploration of the Current Landscape, Trends, and Threats ........................................................................................................................... 18 Breakout Session 3 (Overview)........................................................................................19 Breakout Session 3 (Abstracts) ........................................................................................21 Panel 3A: Terrorist use of emerging technologies.................................................................... 21 Panel 3B: Understanding extremist groups and responses....................................................... 22 Panel 3C: A Comparative Analysis of Islamic State and Atomwaffen Division Activity on Telegram ............................................................................................................................... 23 Panel 3D: Online Extremist Ecosystems? A Critical Cross-Disciplinary Discussion...................... 24 Breakout Session 4 (Overview) ........................................................................................25 Breakout Session 4 (Abstracts) ........................................................................................27 Panel 4A: Empirical and theoretical understandings of radicalisation....................................... 27 Panel 4B: Stakeholder responses ............................................................................................ 29 Panel 4C: Extremist narratives ................................................................................................ 31 Panel 4D: The Impact of Studying Online Extremism on Researchers’ Mental Health: Mitigating and Overcoming the Challenges ............................................................................................. 33 Breakout Session 5 (Overview) ........................................................................................34 Breakout Session 5 (Abstracts) ........................................................................................36 Panel 5A: Audio-visual content............................................................................................... 36 Panel 5B: Effective and Ethical Pedagogical Praxis in Extremism and Terrorism Research Online: An Interactive Discussion ....................................................................................................... 38

Panel 5C: Tech Against Terrorism: Open-source intelligence, research, and policy on countering terrorist use of the internet whilst respecting human rights .................................................... 38 Panel 5D: Countering (Online) Violent Extremism: Practitioners from the Global South ........... 39 Breakout Session 6 (Overview) ........................................................................................40 Breakout Session 6 (Abstracts) ........................................................................................42 Panel 6A: Extremist culture .................................................................................................... 42 Panel 6B: The role of regulation.............................................................................................. 44 Panel 6C: Accelerationism Research in Practice: A Workshop Facilitated by the Accelerationism Research Consortium ............................................................................................................. 46 Panel 6D: Technical Approaches to Counter Terrorism Online: Partnerships & Cross-Platform Methods ................................................................................................................................ 47

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Breakout Session 1 (Overview)

Panel 1A: Extremism and the Covid pandemic

Chair: Dr Lella Nouri (Swansea University)

Propaganda weaponization within the Italian context • Federico Borgonovo (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) • Luca Cinciripini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) • Marco Zaliani (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) The Far-Right, Conspiratorial Thinking, and the Pandemic: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of Australian social media • Dr Julian Droogan (Macquarie University) Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism During the Pandemic and Onwards: Responses and Intervention Strategies to Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism Movements Online • Bradley Galloway (Organization for the Prevention for Violence)

Panel 1B: Online interactions

Chair: Dr Amy-Louise Watkin (Swansea University)

A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Language Associated with Different Forms of Extremism on Twitter • Hollie Sutch (Birmingham City University) Eco-f ascism online: Conceptualising extreme right actors’ response to climate change on cross-national social media • Dr Imogen Richards (Deakin University) Erstwhile Allies and Community Convergence: A Study of Online Interactions Between Salafi- Jihadists and White Supremacists • Dr Brian Hughes (American University) • Meili Criezis (American University)

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Panel 1C: Actors and identities

Chair: Ninian Frenguelli (Swansea University)

Acting Like a State: Visual Analysis of Islamic State’s (Staged) Performances of Modern Stateness • Moign Khawaja (Dublin City University)

Emotion as deeply felt, the experiences of current and ‘former’ far -right extremists • Tomas Cartmill (University of Melbourne)

Hate speech predicts engagement on social media: A case study from Turkey • Dr Kamil Yilmaz (Swansea University)

Panel 1D: Curating Extremism: Workshop on Housing, Organising, and Researching Primary Documents

Panellists: •

Dr Amarnath Amarasingam (Queen’s Unive rsity) • Marc-André Argentino (International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation; Public Safety Canada) • Dr Aaron Y. Zelin (Brandeis University) • Anne Craanen (Senior Research Analyst, Tech Against Terrorism)

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Breakout Session 1 (Abstracts)

Panel 1A: Extremism and the Covid pandemic

Chair: Dr Lella Nouri (Swansea University)

Propaganda weaponization within the Italian context • Federico Borgonovo (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) • Luca Cinciripini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) • Marco Zaliani (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan)

The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed various extremist entities to exploit the multiple facets of the health emergency for propaganda purposes. This analysis outlines a mapping of right- wing extremism and no-vax groups based on their communication strategies within the Italian context. This is carried out by combining digital ethnography, social network analysis and open-source >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47

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