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.
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“Recent Developments of Anti-Government Threats: Online Activities and Transnational Connections” – by ITSTIME
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.
Continue readingGame Over, Propaganda On: How Pro-Islamic State Supporters Exploit Roblox and Discord to Disseminate Gaming Jihad Propaganda on TikTok – by G.L. Giardini and A. Bolpagni
ITSTIME speeches at the VOX-Pol online seminar “Under the Radar: Understanding the Salafi-Jihadi terrorist online information ecosystem” (Part 3)
Continue readingGiacalone nell’Islamic Theology of Counter Terrorism
Giovanni Giacalone di Itstime è entrato a far parte dello Europe Desk (Italy) del think-tank britannico di contro-terrorismo Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism-ITCT quale analista per l’estremismo islamista e il jihadismo in Italia Continue reading
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.
COVID-19: Telegram, autogestione spontanea della comunicazione – by Federico Borgonovo
Il 21 febbraio 2020 con la scoperta dei primi 16 casi italiani di Covid-19 inizia cronologicamente la “Crisi Coronavirus” del sistema-paese Italia, che verrà dichiarata ufficialmente pandemia dall’OMS l’11 marzo[1]. Continue reading
COVID-19 and the virus of violence – by Maria Chr. Alvanou
These couple of months the world has been facing a whole new reality. The epidemic of Coronavirus became a global problem of dimensions that go far beyond the medical struggle to save lives. Continue reading
International Women’s Day: Why combatting violence against women is a security issue – by Maria Chr. Alvanou
Security is believed by many to be exausted in terrorism, extremist violence and any violence that targets public order. Thus any policy regarding safeguarding security is designed towards countering the above threats. Continue reading
Disasters in Popular Cultures: la cultura come strategia di resilienza ai disastri
E’ stato presentato questa mattina (07 Novembre) in Università Cattolica, il libro “Disasters in Popular Cultures” di Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall’O’, Domenica Borriello, con prefazione di Joël Candau, Edizioni Il Sileno. Continue reading
ITSTIME at #TASMConf 2019: A brief review
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
Le riviste femminili jihadiste: tra propaganda e persuasione. Da Sunnat e Khola a Your Home – by Esther Forlenza
La casa mediatica jihadista Maktabah Khayr Ummah al-Islamiyyah (Khayr Ummah) è sorta con lo scopo di incoraggiare i credenti a combattere per il bene di Allah e a favorire il jihad nel Levante e come affermato dalla medesima essa si dichiara indipendente e non affiliata a nessuna organizzazione o gruppo. Ad oggi ha pubblicato circa 70 video di proselitismo, 13 periodici unicamente rivolti all’audience femminile dal titolo “Your Home. Continue reading

