For a reflection by @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social and me on how online harm to researchers can be prevented and mitigated, see this new chapter 👇

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...

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...

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! 🤩

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...

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...

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 🤩

📣 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

One of the best ways to keep up-to-date with our publications, events, etc. is via our monthly newsletter. Sign-up on our website voxpol.eu. #PleaseRS

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...

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...

📢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...

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-...

Feelin' the 💕. This was lovely to see. Thanks @alicetiara.bsky.social

Research institutions must do more to protect researchers from online harms, particularly marginalised scholars. @draamattheis.bsky.social explains more in their new paper ✨ OPEN ACCESS✨ on "Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online" doi.org/10.1332/2515...

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

We kick off the two-day workshop on the topic of ”Gendering militarization in Europe” w/h the keynote of @chrisagius13.bsky.social on ”Gendered inversions of militarization” & a super promising lineup of presenters & a couple of public-facing events as well

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 @draamattheis.bsky.social shows how: ❗Online harassment of researchers is common ❗Harassment of marginalised scholars is strategic practice of far-right ❗Institutions disregard online harms to researchers ✨ OPEN ACCESS✨ doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Very happy to see this article out and to have the opportunity to work with the original #REASSURE team. Check it out 👇👇

Podcast Relaunch! FRAN's podcast Right Rising is back! Check out our latest podcast episode with Prof Mario Peucker talking about his efforts in Victoria, Australia. rightrising.fireside.fm/55

Me and @simoned.bsky.social are organising a pre-SCMS symposium on participatory culture, politics and reactionary fandom. Details and CFP are available at fanstudies.org/2025/02/05/c... and we'd love to see some abstracts from you!

If you can make it to this talk, it would be well worth your time. @ashkingdon.bsky.social's presentations and research are excellent. I am bummed I can't get there . 👇

Really Excited to Be On 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on #3CR to Talk to @slackbastard.bsky.social and @sexenheimer.bsky.social about My New Book 'The World White Web: Uncovering the Hidden Meanings of Online Far-Right Propaganda' We Discuss #KeyFindings #Prevention #CommunityNotes and Obvs the #RomanEmpire

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

'Elon Musk and the phoney far-right narrative of ‘protecting’ women.' Why all Musk and the techbros are protecting is rich men's power. Less protection needed, more care. My latest for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/elon-musk-an...

I meant to run a $0.99 promotion for Optimal, but I accidentally clicked the free promotion button, so guess what, y'all can get it free the next couple days. amzn.to/427qzdu The book's not-too-distant future is getting less and less distant by the day, so, um, there's that to look forward to.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉 ✨️ 🎉🎊 My Book Is Officially Out 🥂😍💃💃AND The Best Part Is It's #OpenAccess Can't Believe I am Starting 2025 as a Published Author 🤓🤓 6 Years of Hard Work has Officially Paid Off 🍾🍾🍾

The Proofs Are In 😍😍 Seriously Cannot Believe My Book 'The World White Web' is Available for Pre-Order Ho Ho Ho #MerryChristmas 🎅🎁 This Was the Biggest Challenge of My Life and I Could Not Have Done it Without the Help of the Following People www.amazon.co.uk/World-White-...

The spring #2021 (second pandemic) update of the #FarRight Bibliography #RadicalRight #Europe #bibliography #tbp

Just finished teaching my last session of my 1st semester at Manchester. Whew! It was a rather rollicking dissertation workshop w/ our fab MA cohort. Discussion so lively we ran over for the next lecturer (😳). Sessions like that are the best!!! Great colleagues & students. It's been a 🎉 semester.

#feminist #writingretreat pls share! The Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities (IRGS), @DublinCityUniversity and the Notre Dame Kylemore are hosting the inaugural annual feminist writing retreat at the Kylemore Abbey, Co Galway, 16-21 Feb 2025. Details here shop.nd.edu/C21688_ustor...

This👇👇👇, Soooo. Much. This. @cfiesler.bsky.social's work is awesome.

"His message may have sounded incoherent to a lot of liberals, but it managed to assemble a constituency of overlapping online communities that, in particular, are listening for archetypes and aesthetics, not policy." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Been (over)thinking about how to start posting my work (by type, date, etc). Given recent misogynist sloganeering, I think this might be if interest. Might be time to write a longer piece connecting then and now. www.fairobserver.com/region/north...

Join us for our webinar with @reacpolrn.bsky.social and CASEI on November 21 at 3PM (CET). Rae Jereza, Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, and Imo Kaufman will be discussing the importance of positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Just finished rereading Wilson's The Infrastructure of Intimacy for a lecture. I never get over how excellent it is and always get new insights. Well worth a read. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Hello to all my new followers! I'm 😊 to connect with you. Checking in to say I have been marking papers, so a bit behind on follows back but will jump back in soon. Will also start posting my research & sharing awesome work by colleagues over the coming days. 🙏🙏🙏

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 | jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Important read (as always). I will be adding this alongside @bostonjoan.bsky.social's book Meme Wars and the Media Manipulation Casebook (a regular teaching resource) to the list for my new class on digital dissent in the spring. 👇👇👇

At the Digital Democracy Centre, we've just created this cool new starter pack featuring research institutions, researchers, NGOs, journals, and think tanks focused on how digital technologies and AI impact media, politics, and democracy. We'll be updating the list continuously!

📢 1.90 is rolling out now (3/11) Every post now has the ability to “detach” quote posts. Quote posts are great but sometimes they’re used to dunk on people. This tool gives you a quick way to remove your post from the quote, reducing the unwanted attention that a quote might bring.

Hi y'all. New here and happily acclimating to the good place. I wanted to introduce myself: I study digital cultures of extremism with a focus on gender and race. Along with that I think about publics, propaganda, circulation, affect, digital research ethics and researcher safety online.