ARENAS Spotlight: Work Package 3 – Circulation of Extremist Narratives
This Work Package plays a vital role in understanding and responding to controversial extremist narratives in the ARENAS project. Dr. Steven Forti, an associate professor in Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), leads WP3 as a dedicated researcher at the Center for Studies on Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID-UAB). Beginning in Italy, and […]
ARENAS Spotlight: Work Package 2 – Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives
The ARENAS project is dedicated to understanding and addressing extremist narratives, a task that requires thorough characterisation and detection. At the heart of Work Package 2: Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives are two renowned linguistic scholars: Dr. Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes and Prof. Dr. Rolf Kailuweit. Dr .Postigo Fuentes, originally from Málaga, Spain, contributes […]
ARENAS Spotlight: WP 1 Coordination and Project Management
As ARENAS responds to the sensitive issue of extremist narratives, careful planning, and effective project management are fundamental to the project’s operation. Julien Longhi, Full Professor at CY Cergy Paris Université, serves as the coordinator of the ARENAS project. Under his leadership, Work Package 1: Coordination and Project Management tackles the responsibility of guiding the […]
Achieving ARENAS Objectives Using Distinct Work Packages.
The overall objective of ARENAS is to characterise, measure and understand the role of extremist narratives in discourses that have an impact on the political and social spheres, but also on the stakeholders themselves. To reach its overall objective, the ARENAS project will pursue and achieve the following five scientific and technical objectives to address […]
Artificial Intelligence applied to Extremist Narrative Analysis in the Online Discourse Workshop
Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) and Extremist Narrative (EN) analysis are hot topics in sociology and linguistics. These fields have a great interest in SUD and EN automatic detection across online texts, and this is one of the main objectives of the ARENAS Horizon Europe project At CY Cergy Paris Université, several heterogeneous researchers are working […]
Empowering Young People Against Hate Speech – Reflecting on the Seminar Series
Amidst the prevalence of hate speech in today’s interconnected society, the need to equip young individuals with tools to combat it is more pressing than ever. For this reason, ARENAS partnered with the international network Schools Beyond Regions and Borders (SBRB) to present the seminar series titled “Empowering Young People Against Hate Speech.” Launched in […]