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.

Il 25 marzo, un tredicenne di Bergamo ha commesso un attacco con coltello nella sua scuola. Durante l’attacco ha gravemente ferito la sua docente di francese, accoltellandola alla gola e trasmettendo l’aggressione in diretta streaming su un gruppo Telegram dal suo cellulare. 

In collaboration with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), ITSTIME took part in the study by developing a Social Network Analysis (SNA) to map the Anti-Government Extremism (AGE) network on Telegram, focusing on its transnational connections, and the propaganda stream towards other social media (messaging platforms and social networks) and websites.

AWARD – CONVERGE Working Group – COVID-19 and Viral Violence CONVERGE is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. The CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups are funded by a philanthropic gift and are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or other funders. Here the link to the Winning Working Group constitued by Barbara Lucini, Maria Alvanou and Giovanni Gugg. 

In the past week ITSTIME, with our research analyst Nicolò Spagna, attended as a speaker to Terrorism and Social Media Conference (#TASMConf) in Wales at Swansea University. Continue reading →