Social Media Campaigns Against Violent Extremism: A New Approach to Evaluating Video Storytelling

In response to the threats posed by jihadist online propaganda, multiple countering violent extremism (CVE) campaigns were carried out with the goal of offering counter and alternative narratives able to contrast those of terrorist organizations. Although there is growing literature on the topic of how to build an effective CVE program, there is a lack of knowledge about how to evaluate a CVE online campaign.

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The Propaganda Machine. Social Media Bias and the Future of Democracy

The present contribution attempts to re-conceptualize propaganda drawing from a classical approach (Herman & Chomsky, 2010) and thanks to more recent contributions developed in the context of critical internet studies (Fuchs, 2012; Morozov, 2011). The global spread of social media in particular is debated as the main factor influencing the contemporary forms of propaganda.

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''Only Social Scientists Laughed'': Reflections on Social Sciences and Humanities Integration in European Energy Projects

This paper gathers reflections on what can bring together academics and practitioners involved in energy-related European Union (EU) funded projects aiming at, or striving to reach, higher integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

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Combating extremism in a public sphere at risk: platforms' affordances, dilemmas and opportunities of social media campaigns

The spread of social media highlights controversial changes in the public sphere: new opportunities of access and expression in fact go alongside aberrant phenomena of extremist propaganda. In recent years, civil society institutions and bodies have responded to the wave of hatred and violence on social media through online awareness-raising campaigns aimed at combating ideological propaganda and offering alternative narratives to vulnerable individuals.

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