🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

So excited that our (with Enrico Mariconti ) paper "Waiting for Q: An Exploration of QAnon Users' Online Migration to Poal in the Wake of Voat's Demise" got accepted to WebSciConf! 🥳 See you all in Germany! The ready version is coming up soon on arXiv.

latest stats on american adults’ social media usage 83% on youtube is astounding

the economist makes an important point: social networks increasingly not social “inspired by tiktok, apps like facebook increasingly serve a diet of clips selected by artificial intelligence according to a user’s viewing behavior, not their social connections.”

The Royal Irish Academy will host a half day seminar on 21 Feb 2024 on Irish Defence and Security in a New European Context. Contributions from Mark Mellett, Maura Conway , Judy Dempsey and Barrie Robinson. Further details available here: eventbrite.ie/e/irish-securi…

Ep 3, "Hashtag Storm the Capitol" will look at the instrumental role social media companies, and Trump’s social media adviser Dan Scavino, played in the run-up to and after the insurrection as well as how tech companies have—and have not—been held accountable.

📚BOOK LAUNCH: Our hybrid panel will explore the linguistic, ethical & legal aspects of counterspeech, functions & effectiveness of counterspeech, + questions how we can use modern tech to advance counterspeech responding to online harm. JOIN US! crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41356/

🚨I am incredibly excited to see my latest article published in Editors examining how the far-right builds its sense of community online! Using netnography, I unpack the group’s dynamics (and culture) contributing to their continued virtual success. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ICYMI: Proud to have just published in Editors! Included is a call for a new starting point to examining far-right online spaces, (re)emphasizing concepts like community, identity, and belonging while also challenging the field’s hyper-fixation on extreme discourses.

Now you can get our latest peer-reviewed edited book ”Salafi-Jihadism and Digital Media - The Nordic and International Context” (Routledge) in paperback. Linda Ahlerup Filip Ahlin routledge.com/Salafi-Jihadis…

📢 Arman Noroozian 🍉 and I looked how data access rules should be operationalised to make sure they meet the needs of researchers. Useful for 40 DSA, but also for the political ad library the Commission will set up! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Full house DCU Library. Thank you, Prof Conway Maura Conway & Director of Library Services John McDonough for moderating the launch. John Doyle & @KennethMcDonagh, thank you for supporting the book by Prof Subrata Mitra, Jivanta Schottli & me. Big thanks to DCU Press! Photo: Kyran O'Brien

You can still register for the #EUCTER2024 conference starting tomorrow which brings a great overview of topics and experts! Delighted to be speaking on the cyber dimension of terrorism and challenges in the EU together with Maura Conway Linda Schlegel ARIJE Ⓓⓔⓒⓞⓝⓢⓣⓡⓤⓒⓣⓘⓝⓖ ⓣⓞ Ⓐⓝⓣⓘⓒⓘⓟⓐⓣⓔ and Ethem Ilbiz!

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 Which societal conditions breed online hostility? We surveyed experiences of victims in 30 countries across the world (N=15,202) to show that political & economic inequality drive global differences in abuse on online platforms: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵 1/12

Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas - Microsoft: microsoft.com/en-us/security…

In a few minutes the last panel of the day! Maura Conway Ethem Ilbiz Linda Schlegel ARIJE Ⓓⓔⓒⓞⓝⓢⓣⓡⓤⓒⓣⓘⓝⓖ ⓣⓞ Ⓐⓝⓣⓘⓒⓘⓟⓐⓣⓔ Law and Gov DCU VOX-Pol Universidad Deusto - Deustuko Unibertsitatea Sapienza Università di Roma PRIF International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

We have three major events taking place at Swansea University in June. Calls for Participants for the Summer School and NextGen conference are still open, as is registration for #TASMConf 2024. More info at voxpol.eu/events/ and tasmconf.com #PleaseRT

The European Commission has accused Ireland—along with Estonia, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal—of failing to comply with obligations under new TCO rules designed to stop the spread of terrorist content online. Ireland has 2 months to respond. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

➡️ What role does the internet play in the radicalisation of terrorists and violent extremists? Revisit our podcast episode featuring Maura Conway & Ryan Scrivens where we explore how the online and offline worlds interact in radicalisation pathways. eu1.hubs.ly/H07tSTW0

Dr Eileen Culloty Eileen Culloty, Assistant Professor School of Comms DCU and Deputy Director FuJo, looks into how Elon Musk has courted Ireland's far-right by taking aim at the government's hate speech laws. Read the piece in TheJournal.ie here: launch.dcu.ie/3uwDiYB