20Mag/26

Threats Beyond the Screen: The use of gaming platforms for the creation and dissemination of ‘Gaming-Jihad’ propaganda – by G. L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni

In the last ten years, gaming has emerged as one of the most efficient youth-appealing alternative propaganda to the canonical Salafi-jihadi audiovisual material, with particular respect to the Islamic State (IS) communicative flow.

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17Mag/26

Modena: Anche senza ideologia, resta la grammatica del terrore – by S. Brzuszkiewicz

Le prime ricostruzioni sul caso di Modena sembrano allontanare, almeno sul piano investigativo e giuridico, l’ipotesi di un attentato terroristico in senso stretto. Eppure, limitarsi alla dicotomia terrorismo sì/terrorismo no oscura un elemento cruciale: anche in assenza di radicalizzazione conclamata, le modalità dell’azione richiamano in maniera più che evidente repertori ormai tipici del terrorismo contemporaneo.

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15Apr/26

Understanding Media Jihad: the forthcoming Routledge book by Professor Miron Lakomy (Italian and English Edition) – by ITSTIME

Towards the end of 2026, the new book by ITSTIME Senior Fellow Professor Miron Lakomy, entitled Understanding Media Jihad, will be released. The volume will offer a comprehensive examination of how Salafi-Jihadi groups exploit the Internet as an instrument for strategic communication and propaganda dissemination.

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06Apr/26

Le incognite dello scenario attuale: la geopolitica del caos – by Joel Terracina

Le relazioni internazionali stanno attraversando una fase turbolenta caratterizzata dalla rottura del fragile equilibrio che regolava il sistema stesso[1]. Come ha affermato Valori nella sua opera “Intelligence e Geopolitica” (https://www.store.rubbettinoeditore.it/catalogo/intelligence-e-geopolitica/ ), stiamo assistendo a un vero e proprio sgretolamento e alla continua ricomposizione dei blocchi strategici e geopolitici formatisi alla fine della guerra fredda.

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02Apr/26

Blackouts and Technosocial Vulnerability. Information, Public Security, and Resilience in the Age of Interdependencies – by G. Buoncompagni

We live in entropic societies in which security increasingly unfolds within the invisible terrain of technosocial interdependencies.

Energy, digital, and communication infrastructures do not merely constitute the material support of everyday life; rather, they represent its deep architecture, to the point that their continuity is perceived as natural, almost taken for granted. It is precisely this apparent invisibility that renders them critical: when they fail, as in the case of blackouts, the result is not simply a technical disruption but a genuine systemic rupture that simultaneously affects the economy, social relations, meaning-making processes, and public order.

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30Mar/26

‘Navigating Beyond the Digital Safe Haven’: Mapping the Course of pro-Islamic State Propaganda on Rocket.Chat through a URL Social Network Analysis – by A. Bolpagni and Dr A. Fisher

The latest issue of the journal Perspective on Terrorism features a paper written by our Senior Analyst A. Bolpagni and our Senior Fellow Analyst Dr A. Fisher. The paper presents the first-ever analysis of the stream of URLs within the pro-Islamic State (IS) server TechHaven on Rocket.Chat. The analysis collected URLs shared from the server’s creation in December 2018 up to October 2024.

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