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January 2016 - December 2019
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- European Laboratory for Comparative Social Research
April 2015 - December 2015
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Das Monitoring radikaler und extremistischer Diskurse im Internet
zeigt nach einer Sortierungs- und Orientierungsphase im Jahr 2022
einen erneuten Anstieg des radikalisierungsträchtigen Klimas ab
Ende 2023 und 2024. Der Beitrag illustriert diese Dynamiken im ersten
empirischen Abschnitt durch die längsschnittliche Analyse von
über 40 Millionen Tele...
The rise of digital environments has raised concerns about how they contribute to and facilitatepolitically motivated crime (PMC), reshaping the processes of radicalization, extremism, andterrorism. This study distinguishes between PMC-online, crimes mediated through the internet, andstrictly offline PMC, analyzing the prevalence and characteristic...
This study examines associations between online mobilization via Telegram and subsequent criminal activities during COVID-19-related protests in Germany. Using two comprehensive datasets—100,654 protest calls from 1,315 Telegram channels within Germany's radical and extremist spheres and 22,993 protest-related criminal incidents reported by Germany...
Social media messages can elicit emotional reactions and mobilize users. Strategic utilization of emotionally charged messages, particularly those inducing fear, potentially nurtures a climate of threat and hostility online. Coined fear speech (FS), such communication deliberately portrays certain entities as imminently harmful and drives the perce...
The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actual impacts of the different content characteristics...
Over the past decade, extremists have increasingly aimed to integrate their ideologies into the center of society by changing the presentation of their narratives to appeal to a larger audience. This process is termed (strategic) mainstreaming. Although this phenomenon is not new, the factors that contribute to the mainstreaming of radical and extr...
To accentuate which platform characteristics particularly foster radicalization and extremist dynamics, this contribution investigates the affordances of social media as delineated in contemporary literature, conducting a platform comparison encompassing Telegram, WhatsApp, and X (formerly Twitter). Based on a scoping review, 17 affordances identif...
Das MOTRA-Internetmonitoring hat das Ziel, Online-Dynamiken und -Prozesse, die Radikalisierung abbilden oder fördern, empirisch messbar zu machen und zu beobachten. Nachdem im letztjährigen Monitor-Beitrag die Rolle der Gruppe in Radikalisierungsprozessen auf theoretischer Ebene in den Blick genommen wurde, präsentiert der diesjährige Monitor-Beitr...
This article in the MOTRA Monitor 2022 presents a dashboard for monitoring the influence of international events on user activities in social media. First, the X Monitoring Dashboard (XMD) is introduced and its functionalities are described. XMD makes it possible to analyze the activities of specific user groups over time and the content they conta...
The European regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (TCO Regulation) is, like the DSA, an approach to combating the spread of terrorist content online that is (1) transnational (EU-wide) and (2) holds Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) accountable. According to this regulation, swift removal of terrorist content become...
Increasingly, influencers are employed to market not only products but also ideas and beliefs. The far right has recognized the strategic potential of influencer communication to tap into new target groups and mobilize supporters. This paper provides insights into the little-explored field of far-right influencers. We conceptualize them as individu...
Der Beitrag soll einen Überblick darüber liefern, welche Elemente radikalislamische
YouTube-Videos und Accounts kennzeichnen. Hierzu wurde ein
Kategoriensystem erarbeitet, welches Online-Propaganda in Form narrativer
und eigeninszenatorischer Strategien typologisiert. Das Kategoriensystem
ermöglicht eine detaillierte Untersuchung von Videos auf inh...
Crafted as an open communication platform characterized by high anonymity and minimal moderation, Telegram has garnered increasing popularity among activists operating within repressive political contexts, as well as among political extremists and conspiracy theorists. While Telegram offers valuable data access to research non-institutionalized act...
Terror attacks are followed by public shock and disorientation. Previous research has found that people use social media to collectively negotiate responses, interpretations, and sense-making in the aftermath of terror attacks. However, the role of ideologically motivated discussions and their relevance to the overall discourse have not been studie...
Zur Messung von Radikalisierungsdynamiken in digitalen Räumen wurden im vorangegangenen Monitor-Bericht verschiedene Indikatoren vorgeschlagen. Der diesjährige Beitrag gibt einen empirischen Überblick über verschiedene Weiterentwicklungen und offene Punkte im Bereich Online-Radikalisierung, mit denen sich das Internetmonitoring beschäftigt. Daraus...
Terrorism is first and foremost viewed as a matter of security policy; however, its emergence, perception, effects, prevention and mitigation actually involve a multitude of societal sectors as well as academic fields, which also means that numerous academics, practitioners and decision-makers are in a position to contribute to analysing and counte...
Societal crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, produce societal instability and create a fertile ground for radicalization. Extremists exploit such crises by distributing disinformation to amplify uncertainty and distrust among the public. Based on these developments, this study presents a longitudinal analysis of far-right communication on fringe...
Im Zuge des Medienwandels und der stetigen Ausdifferenzierung verfügbarer Online-Angebote verlagert sich nicht nur das alltägliche Leben zunehmend ins Digitale, sondern auch die Aktivitäten extremistischer Akteure. In Folge technologischer und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen (z. B. hinsichtlich zunehmender Gewaltbereitschaft im Rahmen von Covid-19...
With the increase in hate speech and extremist content online, the pressure on social media platform operators to track and delete the content in question is also increasing. The term ‘deplatforming’ usually refers to the deletion of groups or accounts by platform operators, but it can also include the deletion of specific contents or whole website...
The possibilities of the Internet and the use of various social media have made it many times more complex to understand the mechanisms of online radicalization processes. Not only because the Internet can have a reinforcing influence on incipient or progressive radicalization, but also because new forms and potential (radicalization) pathways emer...
In recent years, two phenomena have put Europe's liberal democracies under strain: populism and polarization. The rise of populist parties, the increasing radicalization of publics and political discourse, as well as the expansion of hyperpartisan media have caused concern among observers and citizens alike. While lively academic discussions have r...
Accompanying the success of the radical right and right-wing populist movements, right-wing alternative online media have recently gained prominence and, to some extent, influence on public discourse and elections. The existing scholarship so far focuses primarily on the role of content and social media distribution and pays little attention to the...
