Francisco Javier Torregrosa López

• PhD Candidate in Computer Science
• Researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Manosphere movement and its subgroups have garnered the attention of researchers seeking deeper insights into their dynamics. This study specifically focuses on a particular subgroup within the Manosphere called Pick Up Artists (PUAs). PUAs concentrate on teaching heterosexual men sexual seduction techniques to attract women, often promoting a...

Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century. The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countries, in which the political status quo changed. These changes included an increment of the different tensions underlying politics, as has been reported after many other politic...

Extremism has grown as a global problem for society in recent years, especially after the apparition of movements such as jihadism. This and other extremist groups have taken advantage of different approaches, such as the use of Social Media, to spread their ideology, promote their acts and recruit followers. The extremist discourse, therefore, is...

Extremist ideologies are proliferating nowadays in both political and social levels. Considering that youngsters are in a development stage where they are still conforming their own social identity, they become especially vulnerable to these ideologies’ influence. Therefore, it becomes critical to provide them with the psychological skills to ratio...

Nowadays, extremist ideologies are increasing their presence around the world, while having an impact on different social fields, such as politics, religion, or even sports. Youngsters are especially vulnerable to this type of ideologies, as they are still conforming to their own ideals, which in turn represents a problem on their moral and ethical...

Extremism research has grown as an open problem for several countries during recent years, especially due to the apparition of movements such as jihadism. This and other extremist groups have taken advantage of different approaches, such as the use of Social Media, to spread their ideology, promote their acts and recruit followers. Natural Language...

Nowadays, Twitter is used by several political extremist groups to establish close communities on which the opinions are amplified following an echo-chamber effect. However, few literature analyses the effect of the use of an extremist discourse in relation to the relevance of these users on their online network. With the aim of analyzing this effe...

Radicalization, as a violent form of extremism, is a growing problem for Europe. Currently, it is possible to find extreme ideologies regarding almost every topic such as religion, politics or sports. This problem, which ranges from personal identity conflicts to complex societal issues, has an impact on several people everyday, especially on young...

The alt-right is a far-right movement that has uniquely developed on social media, before becoming prominent in the 2016 United States presidential elections. However, very little research exists about their discourse and organization online. This study aimed to analyze how a sample of alt-right supporters organized themselves in the week before an...

The present study analyzed the differences in the language usage between pro-ISIS users and random users on Twitter. Based on the literature, it was expected that, when comparing the tweets from both samples, distinctive patterns would be found on their usage of similar linguistic categories. This observational study compared a dataset of 105 pro-I...

The alt-right is a far-right movement that has uniquely developed on social media, before becoming prominent in the 2016 United States presidential elections. However, very little research exists about their discourse and organization online. This study aimed to analyze how a sample of alt-right supporters organized themselves in the week before an...

The alt-right is a far-right movement that has uniquely developed on social media, before becoming prominent in the 2016 United States presidential elections. However, very little research exists about their discourse and organization online. This study aimed to analyze how a sample of alt-right supporters organized themselves in the week before an...

The present study analyzed the differences in the language usage between pro-ISIS users and random users on Twitter. Based on the literature, it was expected that, when comparing the tweets from both samples, distinctive patterns would be found on their usage of similar linguistic categories. This observational study compared a dataset of 105 pro-I...

Twitter is one of the most commonly used Online Social Networks in the world and it has consequently attracted considerable attention from different political groups attempting to gain influence. Among these groups is the alt-right; a modern far-right extremist movement that gained notoriety in the 2016 US presidential election and the infamous Cha...

RiskTrack is a project supported by the European Union, with the aim of helping security forces, intelligence services and prosecutors to assess the risk of Jihadi radicalization of an individual (or a group of people). To determine the risk of radicalization of an individual, it uses information extracted from its Twitter account. Specifically, th...

Nowadays, playing video games has become more than an entertainment element in our everyday life. From education, sport, marketing or clinical practice to aerospace, the video games industry has a relevant role in our society as element of entertainment, learning and social interaction. Due to that importance, the efforts to improve visual realism...

With the growth of the Islamic terrorism and groups like Islamic State or Al Qaeda, academics have focused on detecting risk factors to understand the radicalisation phenomena and, thus, preventing it. Even though there is not a single profile of an Islamic radical, most of the authors point to several conditions that are partially shared by most o...

En la actualidad, la perfilación cumple una importante función en el campo de la criminología, ya sea en aspectos de prevención como de análisis de eventos delictivos ya cometidos. Esta revisión teórica pretende recopilar y presentar los resultados de las investigaciones más actuales en materia de perfilación indirecta de personalidad, con el fin d...

En la actualidad, la perfilación cumple una importante función en el campo de la criminología, ya sea en aspectos de prevención como de análisis de eventos delictivos ya cometidos. Esta revisión teórica pretende recopilar y presentar los resultados de las investigaciones más actuales en materia de perfilación indirecta de personalidad, con el fin d...

Las investigaciones han concluido que se pueden relacionar ciertos rasgos de personalidad y ciertos patrones de conducta en redes sociales horizontales como Facebook o Twitter. Sin embargo, ¿sería factible extraer información sobre los rasgos de la personalidad de los usuarios de una red social vertical como LinkedIn? Este estudio exploratorio busc...

Nowadays, terrorism is undergoing changes and evolving on par with the rest of the world. Boko Haram involves the perfect example of a new emerging terrorism not only nurtured by globalization and economy, but supported in turn on three ancient pillars as old as religious fanaticism, bigotry and intercultural conflicts. This article attempts to rev...