New on the VOX-Pol blog this week is a taster from the recently published Routledge Handbook of Online Violent Extremism: "Whose Responsibility? Institutions and Ethics Frameworks in Online Extremism and Terrorism Research" Read more here: voxpol.eu/whose-respon...
Dr. Ashley Mattheis
@draamattheis.bsky.social
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
📢 Summer School at @manchester.ac.uk registration closes Monday 15 June 2026! Thinking of joining but struggling with the deadline or payment? Please email methods@manchester.ac.uk — we’ll do our best to help. Find out more: www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/metho... @uomhums.bsky.social
Methods Schools | methods@manchester | The University of Manchester
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📢 Looking to strengthen your research methods skills this summer? Join the Methods@Manchester Summer School 2026 at @manchester.ac.uk from 6–10 July! Explore our courses and find out more: www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/metho... @uomhums.bsky.social #PhD #Methods #Research #SummerSchool
Methods Schools | methods@manchester | The University of Manchester
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Great to See My Latest Chapter 'Fighting Fire with Facts: Detecting, Decoding, and Dismantling Online Propaganda' Out In the AMAZING New Volume Propaganda Studies in Criminology. 💃💃♥️ So Many Incredible Chapters to Check Out 👇👇👇 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
One Week Left to Sign Up to The Only Way is Ethics: Next Gen Networks Unite Please Join Us on Mon 27 April, 5-6.30 BST For a Session Connecting #ECRs #PHDs With the Leading Networks Helping Navigate Ethically Complex, Sensitive Research Sign Up 👇👇 forms.office.com/e/enPWBSWeBa
Was Great to Join Friends and Colleagues #SimoneTaghavi and #RachelKeighley from the @bschcnetwork.bsky.social to Discuss My Book and Doctoral Work ‘The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda’ 👇 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/47tZ...
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📣Deadline extended! You have until Sunday (29.3) to apply. We are looking for Early Career Researchers engaging with far-right politics in Europe.
📣 Call for Applications: ECPR SGEU ECR Pre-Workshop “The Far-Right as a Social Movement in Europe” organized with @larboe.bsky.social, 30 June 2026, one day ahead of the ECPR SGEU Conference in Catania, Italy.
Make of this what you will, but per @cnn.com the White House just released a video integrating footage from the war w footage from Call of Duty. Our research team published analysis of ISIS doing that years ago. Google “Call of Duty Jihad,” no pay wall.
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Looking forward to speaking at the Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate event in Brussels @mediadiversity.bsky.social I’ll be joining @archibaldgustin.bsky.social to discuss the mainstreaming of anti-gender & far-right misogyny www.media-diversity.org/where-we-sta...
Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate - Media Diversity Institute
Register here Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate 23 February 2026 | BELvue Museum, Brussels Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate is a one-day symposium orga...
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Good news! 25% off my book Extreme Britain: Gender Masculinity and Radicalisation 📘 till midnight tonight! Pre-order the paperback now via Waterstones using code FEB26: www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... Based on interviews with activists in UK far right and Islamist movements.
For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇
The rise of online harm | 16 | Individual, community, and institutiona
In an increasingly polarized and reactionary world, researchers are more and more likely to be the target of online harm. Faced with this reality and
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I'm very proud to announce that "Digital Platforms and Agency" is live! Check out the special section published by Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. My colleague Elaine and I worked very hard to curate this selection of essays. csalateral.org/archive/sect...
Digital Platforms and Agency - Lateral
Edited by Reed Van Schenck and Elaine Venter New platforms always invite new subversions of human agency, from Facebook spying on us to AI taking our jobs. This special section invited scholars in med...
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Don't miss this year's first "Methods & Ethics" webinar on Jan 15, 5:00–6:00 PM (CET) - The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online, with Ashley A. Mattheis (Univ. of Manchester). #MethodsAndEthics #DigitalEthics #ExtremismResearch www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester
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Do not miss @crexuio.bsky.social and CANSES's first webinar of 2026 on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics! We are pleased to welcome @draamattheis.bsky.social, who will discuss negotiating the ethics of extremism research online! 🤩
The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester
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New year, new (job) opportunities: Full professorship in Digital Society and Democracy. What: excellent conditions, start-up and transition packages, interdisciplinary and supportive environment, wonderful colleagues. [1/2] fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
DIAS Professorship in Digital Society and Democracy
Application deadline: March 15, 2026, 11.59 PM/23.59 CET/CEST.
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Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎓Funded PhD Alert🎓 AMAZING #Interdisciplinary #MixedMethods Opportunity Exploring Victimhood Identities & Radicalisation in Europe. Work With Me #TerezaCapelos & #MikkoSalmela on Extremism, Hate Speech and Polarisation. #ShareWidely 👇👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Victimhood Identities and Radicalisation Pathways: Psychological and Informational Drivers of Extremism, Hate Speech, and Polarisation in Europe at University of Southampton, listed on F...
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The @crexuio.bsky.social & CANSES webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics will be back after the holidays! Do not miss the first webinar on negotiating the ethics of extremism research online with @draamattheis.bsky.social 🤩
The Digital as Field Site: Negotiating the Ethics of Extremism Research Online - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Ashley A. Mattheis, University of Manchester
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📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Please share widely. I am pleased to announce a #CfPs for the upcoming international conference on Museums and Dissidence at @officialuom.bsky.social Scan the QR code for further details. #Museums #Dissidence #PoliticalDisagreement #Conference #MuseumActivism
Is it okay to engage with extremists? Join our webinar with @lizzypearson.bsky.social from Royal Holloway, University of London, on Oct. 16, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online. Moderated, as always, by the one and only @audreygagnon.bsky.social! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
Is it ok to talk to extremists? Navigating gender and avoiding legitimisation in ethnography with the far right - C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism
with Elizabeth Pearson, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Just under a week to go til our next seminar! We're really excited to be hosting @tariqmodood.bsky.social to be talking to us about global racisms. 2pm BST Wednesday 1st October (next Wednesday!) You can join us here: us06web.zoom.us/j/8174893023... with the access code 546157
🚨 New PhD Opportunity at Anglia Ruskin University 🚨 Happy to announce a new funded PhD opportunity - looking at The Role of AI in Extermist MisInformation (w/ Lakshmi Babu Saheer & Elisa Orofino). 📌 ESRC Research Priority Areas: Security, risk and resilience www.cam-dtp.ac.uk/students/cur...
New edited volume "Contemporary Far Right Culture" with chapters by C-REX scholar @grahammacklin.bsky.social and affiliate @evianeleidig.com. Check it out! www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
Contemporary Far-Right Culture: The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism
Contemporary Far-Right Culture offers a comprehensive overview of the varied manifestations of today’s far-right culture. It examines how far-right extremists operate in the spaces they inhabit, explo...
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📢Job alert! Come join us at @criminologyuom.bsky.social ! We're advertising for full-time Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) to develop innovative teaching in trust and security in a digital world. Deadline 4 June 2025. #AcademicSky #AcademicJob www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Lecturer in Microcredentials (Teaching and Scholarship) :Manchester
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Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
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