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22/06/2016 - 24/06/2016
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The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (voxpol.eu) is an EU-funded academic research network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses to it. VOX-Pol’s inaugural two-day conference took place at King’s College London on 28 – 29 August 2014. VOX-Pol’s mid-project conference will take place at Dublin City University, Ireland on 23 – 24 June, 2016, with pre-conference workshops taking place on 22 June. Register here.
Keynote Speakers
J.M. Berger is a fellow with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. He is a researcher, analyst and consultant, with a special focus on extremist activities in the U.S. and use of social media. Berger is co-author of ISIS: The State of Terror (2015) with Jessica Stern and author ofJihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam (2011). Berger publishes the web site Intelwire.com and has written for Politico, The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, among others. He was previously a non-resident fellow with the Brookings Institution, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, and an associate fellow with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at VOX-Pol partner institution, King’s College London.
Extremists on Social Media, the Post-ISIS Challenge’
While far from ended, the best days of Islamic State’s social media campaign are behind it, Berger will argue in his keynote, and provide a review of lessons learned from their unprecedented efforts to leverage social media to promote violence, along with a look at the rising and vastly more complex challenges that lie ahead, as a wide variety of extremist and antisocial movements learn to use the same tools to spread hate and violence.
Dunja Mijatović is the OSCE’s Representative on Freedom of the Media. Mijatović was a founder of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2007 she was elected Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies. She also chaired the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on freedom of expression and information in times of crisis. Mijatović is an expert in human rights, communications and media strategy and regulatory and media policy. She also has many years of experience in issues related to journalists’ safety and new media, including digitalization, convergence and the Internet.