How to Characterise the Discourse of the Far-Right in Digital Media? Interdisciplinary Approach to Preventing Terrorism
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How to characterise the discourse of the far-right in digital media? Interdisciplinary approach to preventing terrorism. S. Alava, N. Chaouni To cite this version: S. Alava, N. Chaouni. How to characterise the discourse of the far-right in digital media? Interdisci- plinary approach to preventing terrorism.. Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, 2020, 176, pp.2515- 2525. 10.1016/j.procs.2020.09.324. hal-03092971 HAL Id: hal-03092971 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03092971 Submitted on 3 Jan 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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How to Icharacterinterdisciplinaryse the discourse approach ofto thepreventing far-right terrorism. in digital media? Interdisciplinary approach to preventing terrorism. S. Alavaa,*, N. Chaounib, Y. Charlesc, aUniversity of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, Project Leadera,* of PRACTICIES EUROPA,b 5 allée Antonioc, Machado 31078 Toulouse France, S. Alava seraphin.alava@univ, N. Chaouni-tlse2.fr, Y. * Charles a UniversitybUniversity of Toulouse of Toulouse II Jean II Jaurès, Jean Jaurès, Project 5 Leader allée Antonio of PRACTICIES Machado EUROPA,31078 Toulouse 5 allée France, Antonio nawel.chaouni@univ Machado 31078 Toulouse-tlse2.fr France, * cUniversity of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, 5 alléeseraphin.alava@univ Antonio Machado- tlse2.fr31078 Toulouse France, [email protected] bUniversity of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, 5 allée Antonio Machado 31078 Toulouse France, [email protected] cUniversity of Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, 5 allée Antonio Machado 31078 Toulouse France, [email protected] Abstract Abstract The fight against extremist discourse on the Internet and on social media is paramount in countering terrorism and radical recruitment. The approach could be simple and elected representatives and authorities seem to want to legislate quickly on this subject. 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A mathematical and algorithmic modelling will allow an automation of searches in order to set up a warning mechanism, with a sociological objective of identification and thus validation for digital content producers and access providers. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) This© 2019 is an The open Author(s). access Publishedarticle under by theElsevier CC BY-NC-NDB.V. license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of KES International. 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The connection between terrorist groups and the media has a long France with the small newspaper and acts committed by the Bonnot gang; terrorism comprises two phases (dynamite history (HUGHES, F-B, 2011). It emerged in the late 19th century with the anarchist attacks and reached its apogee in Franceand the with front the page) small which newspaper fuel one and another acts committed on the terrorist by the scene Bonnot, the gang fact; terrorismperfectly comprisesunderstood two by phases extremist (dynamite groups (DEBRAY, R. 2002) and which soon made way for other terrorist temporalities such as propaganda and recruitment. and the front page) which fuel one another on the terrorist scene, the fact perfectly understood by extremist groups (DEBRAY, R. 2002) and which soon made way for other terrorist temporalities such as propaganda and recruitment. * Correspondin g author. Tel.: +33 6 30 74 90 03. E-mail address: [email protected] * Corresponding author. Tel.: +33 6 30 74 90 03. 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Alava et al. / Procedia Computer Science 176 (2020) 2515–2525 2 Author name / Procedia Computer Science 00 (2020) 000–000 From 2001, in the wake of the attacks in the United States, the Internet quickly became the centre of concern for intelligence services and international organisations. The fight against terrorism involves combating extremist theories, discourses and propaganda present on the Internet. Removing links, websites, videos with explicitly terrorist or extremist content is becoming a research priority and we are lacking a technological response. This fight against radical discourse online gave rise