Social media platforms have recently seen an increase in the occurrence of hate speech discourse which has led to calls for improved detection methods. Most of these rely on annotated data, keywords, and a classification technique. While this approach provides good coverage, it can fall short when dealing with new terms produced by online extremist communities which act as original sources of w...

Introduction Adverse childhood experiences are common and have been linked to a number of physical illnesses, as well socioeconomic problems. Moreover, it has proven that ACEs can increase chances people showing criminal behaviour. The question arises whether with also an increased chance joining extremist groups or violent gangs. Objectives aim this systematic review is measure the ACE rates i...

Violent extremists’ communications regularly yield lethal consequences. Yet despite this importance, no clear framework yet exists that exposes in a coherent way the various markers of violent extremist language. We construct theoretical model language, integrating and refining existing approaches from different academic fields into comprehensive account its semantic content structure. evidence...

This research aimed to study left-wing and right-wing groups’ political polarization their Social Representations (SR) of each other, as well investigate the experience violence belief in a just world (BJW). An online survey was conducted. The groups used terms equality, empathy, justice describe themselves, while freedom, conservatism, justice. Both negative opponents; left-wingers described r...

Using insights from social choice theory, particularly Black’s concept of single-peaked preferences and Downs’s median-voter model, the authors previously investigated the theoretical impact of the alternative vote system (AV) on the success of moderate parties in an ethnically bipolar society. Focusing on the simplest case, that with one moderate and one extremist ethnic party associated with ...

Support for an extremist entity such as Islamic State (ISIS) somehow manages to survive globally online despite considerable external pressure and may ultimately inspire acts by individuals having no history of extremism, membership in a terrorist faction, or direct links to leadership. Examining longitudinal records of online activity, we uncovered an ecology evolving on a daily time scale tha...