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Al-Ghazzi Explains How “the Unthinkable” Happened

January 18, 2016
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“We need to historicize this phenomenon in order to understand it,” explained Omar Al-Ghazzi, lecturer at the University of Sheffield’s Journalism Department in his lecture "From the Arab Spring to ISIS: On the Mediation of History in Arab Politics" held on January 14. The phenomenon that he was talking about is the events that have come to be known as “the Arab Spring” – events that were, according to Al-Ghazzi, unique in part because of the way they were communicated.

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CMDS signs the petition for #SecurityForAll

January 13, 2016
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CMDS is among the nearly 200 supporters who have so far signed the open letter of https://securetheinternet.org/,  intended for the leaders of the world’s governments, and urging the support of the safety and security of users, companies, and governments by strengthening the integrity of communications and systems.

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Apply to our VOX-Pol Summer School on Topics in Violent Online Political Extremism

December 10, 2015
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Date: 4 – 9 July, 2016 

Place: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence is a European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7) funded academic research network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses.

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CMDS Fellow Gill Phillips Has Been Awarded Honorary Law Doctorate

December 9, 2015
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Gill Phillips, non-resident fellow of CMDS and globally recognized media law specialist has been awarded honorary law doctorate by the London South Bank University. Gill has advised on some of the most culturally significant events of recent years. A part-time Employment Tribunal judge, she is also instrumental in the education of countless law students as co-author of the College of Law’s Employment Law Handbook.

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New Report by CMDS Fellows Lina Dencik and Arne Hintz

November 23, 2015
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Publications - Reports

Managing ‘Threats’: Uses of Social Media for Policing Domestic Extremism and Disorder in the UK is a newly published project report by Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Zoe Carey and Hina Pandya from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, which examines the uses of social media for policing domestic extremism and disorder in the UK, focusing on how social media data informs decision-making with regards to the policing of domestic extremism and disorder in the context of the United Kingdom.

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