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Workshop Conditions of Success for the Far-Right: A One-Day Exploration of Communication Strategies, Critique and Scholarly Insights

DigiMoD — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:39:39 +0000

In November 2024, Baoning Gong and Florian Primig (FU Berlin) organized the workshop Conditions of Success for the Far-Right: A One-Day Exploration of Communication Strategies, Critique, and Scholarly Insights. This event, part of the workshop series of the Far-Right Researchers (FFR) network, brought together scholars from the “Contemporary Research on Far-Right Politics” group at the […]

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Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms.

DigiMoD — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:30:18 +0000

At the beginning of this year, Dr. Kilian Buehling, Prof. Dr. Annett Heft, and Xixuan Zhang (all from the Weizenbaum Institute and Freie Universität Berlin) published their paper Veiled conspiracism: Particularities and convergence in the styles and functions of conspiracy-related communication across digital platforms in New Media & Society. Their research explores how digital communication […]

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European Violent Right-Wing Extremism Monitoring Project (EVREM)

DigiMoD — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:40:00 +0000

At the EU Internet Forum Technical Meeting on Terrorist and Violent Extremist Financing Activities Online II on September 10, 2024, Dr. Annett Heft (Freie Universität and Weizenbaum Institute) presented the European Violent Right-Wing Extremism Monitoring Project (EVREM) and shared key findings on funding trends in the far-right sector. The EU Internet Forum gathered EUIF members, […]

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Affording Conspiracism. Particularities of Conspiracy-Related Communication Across Platforms

DigiMoD — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:36:00 +0000

The international symposium “Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media,” hosted by the Social Media Observatory (SMO) at the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research, took place from April 24 to 26, 2024. It explored the pivotal role of social and online media in uniting and dividing communities, from supporting democratic movements to fostering […]

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Presentation on ‘Mapping a Dark Space: Challenges in Sampling and Classifying Non- Institutionalized Actors on Telegram’

DigiMoD — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 12:29:00 +0000

On January 23, 2024, Prof. Dr. Pablo Jost (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich) presented and discussed our collaborative work on Mapping a Dark Space: Challenges in Sampling and Classifying Non-Institutionalized Actors on Telegram, co-authored by Dr. Annett Heft and Dr. Kilian Buehling (both Freie Universität and Weizenbaum Institute), Maximilian Zehring and Emese Domahidi (both Ilmenau Technical University) as well as Heidi […]

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