ORPHEUS' Live Webinar 07: Online alter & counter-narratives for combating violent extremism-Jan 2022 скачать в хорошем качестве

ORPHEUS' Live Webinar 07: Online alter & counter-narratives for combating violent extremism-Jan 2022

Online alter & counter-narratives for combating violent extremism- Friday January 21st 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 (CET) A description of the webinar: In the age where digital social media are often blamed for increasing polarisation and rise of extremism, there is undisputable need for support for social media creators willing to counteract these trends. This webinar presents scholarly perspectives on narrative approaches for the prevention of violent extremism. Criteria of effective alter- or counter-narratives to narratives promoting violent extremism will be considered, and supported by practical examples. The target audience of this webinar are members (practitioners and decision makers) of organizations engaged in supporting youth content creators, and content creators interested in providing and sharing narratives preventing violent extremism in any form, as well as students and scholars of psychology and communication studies interested in terrorism studies. The agenda of the webinar 14.00: Introduction, starting up & welcome 14.10: House rules, recordings 14.15: Short introduction of the presenters 14.20: Presentation by Johanna Taake 15.00: Invited Speaker Presentation by Dr. Kurt Braddock 15:45: Q&A from participants 16.00: Closing Speakers: Johanna Taake Johanna Taake conducts research at UCR identifying alter-narratives with potential preventive value against radicalization present on YouTube and other social media services to support the development of a content guide for effective visual alternative narratives preventing violent extremism in the Orpheus project. The guide will offer means for both online and offline prevention of political violence, with young people and their educators as central actors. Moreover, the guide will provide potential content creators, who are interested in finding or creating media promoting narratives of preventive value against extremism with practical advice on features, structure and content displacing the attractiveness of radical narratives Dr. Kurt Braddock Kurt Braddock is a Professor of Public Communication in the School of Communication at American University. Kurt also holds faculty fellow positions at the SOC's Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI) and the Center for University Excellence's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). His research focuses on the persuasive strategies used by violent extremist groups to recruit and radicalize audiences targeted by their propaganda. Kurt also explores how theories of communication, persuasion, and social influence can be used to inform practices meant to prevent radicalization among vulnerable audiences. His first book, titled Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Cambridge University Press, 2020), provides examples of how terrorist groups persuade audiences to adopt their ideologies, and how this process can be fought. In addition to publishing his work in key communication and security journals (e.g., Communication Monographs, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism), he has advised the U.K. Home Office, Public Safety Canada, the United Nations Counterterrorism Executive Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Defense.in D.C. and others on how to fight terrorism.