Contextual
Resources

Once a government or tech company develops a definition of terrorism or violent extremism, it can be difficult to know how to apply these definitions to the variety of ways that terrorism and violent extremism manifests internationally and across online spaces.

This section of the site aims to highlight contextual resources on themes related to applying definitions to the online space.  GIFCT funds the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) to bring forward actionable insights from experts and practitioners around the world to better inform and give context to tech companies, governments, practitioners and other stakeholders in this field. Insights are curated here under context-based themes.

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CT Efforts/Positive Interventions

Counterterrorism and counter-extremism campaigns and interventions online have evolved in recent years. These efforts aim to intervene in processes of radicalization, deplatform known extremist networks, redirect users to counterspeech content and positive alternatives, or direct users to resources that can help them disengage from violent extremist networks. International academics have been evolving the intervention space to discuss measurement and evaluation of these campaigns and programs, as well as looking to the future in assessing where interventions can evolve and innovate.

  • 15th January 2021
    Why Deplatforming the Extreme Right is a Lot More Challenging than Deplatforming IS
    Dr. Maura Conway
  • 18th December 2020
    Deradicalisation by Videoconference
    Cameron Sumpter
  • 10th December 2020
    Paved With Good Intentions: How the EU Legislative Process has Placed Internet Voluntary Counter Extremism Near the Edge of the Legal Wilderness
    Dr. Victoria McCloud
  • 18th November 2020
    Offline Meets Online: A Fused Messaging Ecosystem in Response to Violent Extremism in Mindanao
    Exan Sharief, Joseph Franco
  • 05th November 2020
    The Hate Matrix of Online Gaming
    Dr. Matthew Sharpe
  • 26th October 2020
    LOL Extremism: Humour in Online Extremist Content
    Chelsea Daymon
  • 12th October 2020
    Macron’s Plan for Fighting Islamist Radicalisation – Offline
    Dr. Julian Junk, Clara-Auguste Süß
  • 01st October 2020
    Online Subcultures and the Challenges of Moderation
    Florence Keen
  • 21st September 2020
    Part 2: Algorithmic Agency in Online Extremism: The Bigger Picture
    Dr. Yvonne Jazz Rowa

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