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Paper - Lone Actors in Digital Environments

This new paper aims to provide an overview of digital environments and their impact on lone actors. The paper draws insights from qualitative research and monitoring of RWE online subcultures that reveals a shift towards a post-organisational reality, whereby online structures and subcultural milieus could be equally important for inspiring violence as connections to groups in the physical world.

date:  13/01/2022

The paper looks to understand this emerging trend, recognising the online communities that violent right-wing extremists use to produce a sense of belonging, spreading dehumanising propaganda, and promoting acts of violence.

You can read the paper in full here.