@draamattheis
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture at the University of Manchester. Researching gender, racism, and digital cultures of far-right, white supremacists, and male supremacist extremism. Views my own.
Make of this what you will, but per @cnn.com the White House just released a video integrating footage from the war w footage from Call of Duty.
Our research team published analysis of ISIS doing that years ago.
Google “Call of Duty Jihad,” no pay wall.
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Looking forward to speaking at the Where We Stand: Gender, Language and the Politics of Hate event in Brussels @mediadiversity.bsky.social
I’ll be joining @archibaldgustin.bsky.social to discuss the mainstreaming of anti-gender & far-right misogyny
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Good news! 25% off my book Extreme Britain: Gender Masculinity and Radicalisation 📘 till midnight tonight!
Pre-order the paperback now via Waterstones using code FEB26:
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Based on interviews with activists in UK far right and Islamist movements.
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.
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Thx! 🙏🙏
Thank you for hosting me. I had a lovely time and it was an engaging discussion!
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!
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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.
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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 👇👇
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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.
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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
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Social Repair Online Seminar Understanding Global Racisms: Beyond Euro-Americancentricity Speaker: Prof Tariq Modood Discussant: Dr Morgane Reina Date: Wednesday 1st October 2025 Time: 15:00 – South Africa / 09:00 – Canada (Ottawa) / 10:00 – Brazil / 14:00 UK Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and the co-founder of the international journal, Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. He was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and was awarded the Senior Scholar Award by Rice University, Houston in 2025. In 2022 he was ranked in the top 20 UK cited scholars in Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. His latest books include Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-racism (Political Quarterly, 2022) and Global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity (Religion, State and Society, 2022). His latest book, with Thomas Sealy, is The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024) He has a You Tube Channel and his website is tariqmodood.com. Prof Modood will be speaking on how the concept of racialization, developed in Britain and the Global North, may be useful for understanding some forms of prejudice, exclusion, and domination in the Global South
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.
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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... 🧵
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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"
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Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
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.
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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. 🧵
Thank you!
🚨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...