Bertram Vidgen is an OII DPhil student. His research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts.
Email: bertie.vidgen@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Before joining the OII, Bertie completed a BA in History and Politics at the University of Warwick (2013) and an MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex (2014). His research focuses on far-right extremism in online contexts. Specifically, he is interested in how large quantities of unstructured textual data, collected from online platforms such as Twitter, can be used to map extremist groups and understand their goals and ideology. He is supervised by Dr Taha Yasseri.
Research interests
online spaces and identity formation, social media, far-right extremism, 21st century social movements, textual data analysis
Positions held at the OII
- DPhil student, October 2015 –
Supervisors at the OII
Latest blog posts
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Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
Date Published: 23 March 2016
Authors: Bertram Vidgen
(Part 2 of 2) The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold ... Read More Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
Date Published: 18 February 2016
Authors: Bertram Vidgen
The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law ... Read More Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
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A New Approach To Defining Extremism
Recorded: 31 March 2016
Duration: 00:16:46
Bertie Vidgen argues that current definitions of extremism are severely limited. They are posed as certainties rather than probabilities, and this makes them incapable of capturing the complexity of social reality.
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Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
23 March 2016
Author: Bertram Vidgen
(Part 2 of 2) The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold ... Read More Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
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Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material
18 February 2016
Author: Bertram Vidgen
The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law ... Read More Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material