Describing Alt-Right Communities and Their Discourse on Twitter During the 2018 US Mid-term Elections

Panizo-LLedot, Ańgel; Torregrosa, Javier; Bello-Orgaz, Gema; Thorburn, Joshua; Camacho, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-36683-4_35

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“…Furthermore, research on the Alt-Right in Europe found that members are often distrustful of traditional media and rely on social media as their primary news source [123]. The central topics of this social media discourse include those social issues found here to be mitigated by trust in conservative media: discrimination against Whites, Islamic terrorism, government corruption, and climate change [117,119]. The mitigating effect of lower trust in conservative media may be explained by the Alt-Right's reliance on this online media environment rather than traditional conservative news sources, wherein specific social issues are emphasized resulting in the interaction effects observed here.…”

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“…The US has a particularly large and active right-wing digital news infrastructure, which has been associated with increasing distrust in traditional news media [114,115]. Within this broader architecture, the Alt-Right has an expansive online media environment encompassing a variety of platforms and content creators, including dedicated Alt-Right news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos, memes, and social media [115][116][117][118][119][120][121]. Furthermore, Alt-Right adjacent communities on YouTube, the Alt-Light, and Intellectual Dark Web, have served as entry points to the more extremist content of the movement [120,122].…”

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Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right

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Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of social issues, feelings of status threat, trust in conservative media, and affiliation with the Alt-Right among White Americans. We find concern over more conservative social issues along with trust in conservative media explain a large portion of the variation in feelings of status threat among White Americans. Furthermore, more conservative social issues plus feeling of status threat significantly increase the odds of Alt-Right affiliation. Most surprisingly, however, trust in conservative media mitigated, instead of amplified, these associations. Implications and calls for future research are discussed.

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“…It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. populist and far-right movements all over the world, 1,2 the socio-political context has experienced a change that has deeply a®ected the society. Both the political discourse and citizen worries have also changed.…”

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“…There are several problems that are studied in this topic. The most popular are: hate speech detection, [8][9][10] political polarization, 1,11,12 community¯nding problems, [13][14][15] information di®usion, 16,17 or the study of how people in°uence each other through their posts on the OSN. 1,18 Noticing this issue, the European Union has founded several programs and projects to address radicalization.…”

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“…The most popular are: hate speech detection, [8][9][10] political polarization, 1,11,12 community¯nding problems, [13][14][15] information di®usion, 16,17 or the study of how people in°uence each other through their posts on the OSN. 1,18 Noticing this issue, the European Union has founded several programs and projects to address radicalization. Probably, most examples are related to Islamic radicalization such as TRIVALENT, b,19 ARMOUR c and RiskTrack d, 20,[21][22][23] projects.…”

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Improving Youngsters’ Resilience Through Video Game-Based Interventions

Menéndez-Ferreira

Torregrosa

Panizo-LLedot

et al. 2020

Vietnam J. Comp. Sci.

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Radicalization, as a violent form of extremism, is a growing problem for Europe. Currently, it is possible to find extreme ideologies regarding almost every topic such as religion, politics or sports. This problem, which ranges from personal identity conflicts to complex societal issues, has an impact on several people everyday, especially on youngsters. To confront this situation, the European Union found several initiatives, as a way to face this problem from a scientific perspective. Some of these initiatives face the problem trying to reduce radicalization by working on personal and social skills through education, in such a way the youngster’s resilience is improved. This paper aims to present YoungRes, a European project whose goal is to improve the resilience of youngsters. To do so, it unifies an already created intervention — named Fortius — through the inclusion of video games in the learning process. This paper describes both: (1) how the Fortius program is modified to allow video games sessions and (2) the software architecture designed to allow students and educators to participate in YoungRes project. Finally, different suggestions to include in future versions of the game are discussed.

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A survey on extremism analysis using natural language processing: definitions, literature review, trends and challenges

Torregrosa

Bello-Orgaz

Martínez‐Cámara

et al. 2022

J Ambient Intell Human Comput

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Extremism has grown as a global problem for society in recent years, especially after the apparition of movements such as jihadism. This and other extremist groups have taken advantage of different approaches, such as the use of Social Media, to spread their ideology, promote their acts and recruit followers. The extremist discourse, therefore, is reflected on the language used by these groups. Natural language processing (NLP) provides a way of detecting this type of content, and several authors make use of it to describe and discriminate the discourse held by these groups, with the final objective of detecting and preventing its spread. Following this approach, this survey aims to review the contributions of NLP to the field of extremism research, providing the reader with a comprehensive picture of the state of the art of this research area. The content includes a first conceptualization of the term extremism, the elements that compose an extremist discourse and the differences with other terms. After that, a review description and comparison of the frequently used NLP techniques is presented, including how they were applied, the insights they provided, the most frequently used NLP software tools, descriptive and classification applications, and the availability of datasets and data sources for research. Finally, research questions are approached and answered with highlights from the review, while future trends, challenges and directions derived from these highlights are suggested towards stimulating further research in this exciting research area.

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Describing Alt-Right Communities and Their Discourse on Twitter During the 2018 US Mid-term Elections

Cited by 12 publications

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Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right

Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right

Improving Youngsters’ Resilience Through Video Game-Based Interventions

A survey on extremism analysis using natural language processing: definitions, literature review, trends and challenges

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