The New Face of Online Extremism (Routledge Studies in Digital Extremism)

The New Face of Online Extremism offers an overview of cutting-edge empirical research around the intersection of extremism and the internet and addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by researchers working on online extremism. While changing social and technological processes have facilitated novel uses of technology by extremists, the book highlights the capacity of these shifts to be utilized by academics to support innovative research.

This book brings together prominent contemporary contributors who examine several novel and under-researched expressions of online extremism, including crypto-financed, conspiracy, neo-Luddite, COVID-19, and Incel groups. The chapters address the challenges of contemporary online extremism research and provide insights for policymakers and regulators as well as ideas for future research.

The New Face of Online Extremism is an important contribution to evidence-based prevention and intervention programmes, and it is a key resource for students and scholars, as well as professionals working in security and social domains.

Mark Littler is Professor of Regulation, Risk, and Governance at the University of Greenwich, UK. His research focuses on the regulation of online environments, processes of radicalization, and policy responses to extremism. He is a former Co-Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism (WG-EXTREME), Associate Editor of Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression and a member of the editorial board of Perspectives on Terrorism.

Elanie Rodermond is Associate Professor in Criminology at the Criminal Law and Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Her research focuses on the life course, criminal career, and re-entry experiences of offenders, most notably extremist and terrorist offenders. Elanie Co-Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism (WG-EXTREME), Associate Editor of Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and Editor of the Dutch journal Sancties [Sanctions].