Workshop, MZES, Mannheim, Germany
“Social Science Meets Digital Data: Methods of Computational Social Science” was an amazing workshop hosted by Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). I had the honour of presenting the current research design of RaPoTik (Radicalization Potentials on TikTok). The slides I used are here.
Webtalk, Ufuq.de, Berlin, Germany
I held this Webtalk, hosted by Ufuq.de, which primarily catered to practitioners and researchers. During my presentation, I provided outlined of how TikTok could potentially facilitate radicalization and emphasized the role that collective emotions might play here. At the end, I presented concrete examples of accounts that use emotive triggers to substantiate my arguments. My slides are right here.
Conference, Motra-K #2022, Hochschule Fresenius, Wiesbaden, Germany
MOTRA is a “Monitoring system and transfer platform for radicalization [research].” In their annual conference in 2022, I elaborated on the potentials for radicalization through TikTok and provided data I had collected through a “self-experiment” and analysis of the TikTok account “Muslim Interaktiv.” The presentation was titled “Potentials of Radicalization on TikTok.”
Conference, CES, University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
As the chair of the panel, I had the privilege of hosting presentations by Mujtaba Isani, Nicole Doerr, and Liriam Sponholz, while also delivering my own presentation entitled “Narratives of Xeno- and Islamophobia in ‘Islamist’ Communication: An Analysis of Hizb ut-Tahrir Adjacent Twitter Accounts in Germany.” The panel, titled “Islamism and Xenophobia in Europe: Dynamics of Extremism and Feedback Effects,” explored the reciprocal relationship between xenophobia and ‘Islamism’, highlighting how anti-Muslim sentiments and radicalization can mutually influence each other.
Conference, Wissenschaftskonferenz 2021, Novotel Hotel Am Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
This presentation (“Islamist” strategies of radicalization) was held at the Wissenschaftskonferenz (Science Conference) by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) in 2021, providing an introduction to the novel D:Islam project and its then first module. I was the chair for corresponding panel called “Ways into the rabbit hole.”