ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention

Exploring Right-Wing Extremism in Online Spaces – Can We Use Big Data to Predict Offline Action?

Virtual

Oral · Social Psychology

The threat of right-wing terrorism is increasing. Research suggests the Internet is playing an important role in the spread of ideology and in the preparation of attacks. We combine methods from psychology and computational science to identify whether online behaviour can be used to infer risk of offline extremist action.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Olivia BrownSpeaker
    University of Bath
  • Adam JoinsonDiscussant
    University of Bath
  • Laura SmithDiscussant
    University of Bath