This article considers the implications of mainstreaming ‘right-wing extremism’ for what, and whom, we understand as ‘extreme’. It draws on ethnographic research (2017-2020) with young people active in movements routinely referred to public academic discourse ‘extreme right’ or ‘far right’. Based interviews, informal communication observation, explores how actors milieu ‘extremism’ far this cor...

This is a formal commentary, responding to Matthew Curran Benigni, Kenneth Joseph, and Kathleen Carley's contribution, "Online extremism and the communities that sustain it: Detecting the ISIS supporting community on Twitter". This brief review reflects on the ethics of big data research methodologies, and how novel methods complicate long-standing principles of research ethics. Specifically, t...

We analyze an electoral competition model with two offi ce motivated candidates where a) one of the two candidates enjoys a non-policy advantage and b) voters use shortcuts (e.g. interest-group/media endorsements) to infer the policy platforms of the competing candidates. That is, voters have imperfect information about the candidates’policy proposals: they do not observe the exact policy propo...

One aspect of opinion change that has been of academic interest is the impact of people with extreme opinions (extremists) on opinion dynamics. Amblard and Deffuant (2004) used an agent-based model to study the role of small-world social network topologies on general opinion change in the presence of extremists. They found that opinion convergence to a single extreme occurs only when the averag...

Recurrent features of the thinking pattern (or mind-set) of violent militant extremists are delineated, discussed, and related to previous research and theory. We examined extremist groups from a diverse range of continents, cultures, and political and religious orientations. We compared statements by (and, to some degree, statements about) these groups and formulated 16 themes common to the mi...