Social Media narratives: addressing extremism in middle age

Project Information

SMIDGE

Grant agreement ID: 101095290

DOI

10.3030/101095290

Project closed

EC signature date 6 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 143 188,38

EU contribution

€ 2 143 188,38

Coordinated by

KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (25)

Report on Networking Technologies update
Report on Conspiracy, misinformation and extremist content
Online survey report to outline the methodology and the results of the online survey
Digital database for video content promoting extremist narratives report
Symposium Proceedings
List of stakeholders and EU projects and engagement activities report
Social Network analysis and text analysis report
Report on guideline and policy development processes and outcomes
Counter-videos and Micro-content report
Progress report on Social Network analysis and text analysis
Report on social media extremist textual analysis
Report of focus groups analysis

Report of focus groups analysis.

Progress report on data scraping
Webinar Report
Horizon Scanning report 2016-2023 update
Horizon Scanning report 2016-2023
Report on Conspiracy, misinformation and extremist content update
Report on Networking Technologies
Report on social media extremist textual analysis update
Teaching and Learning Materials and MOOC report
Progress report on online survey
Sentiment analysis report
Dissemination and communication activities and Exploitation Action plan update
Evaluation report of New Media
Dissemination and communication activities and Exploitation Action plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

The Exchange Model of Mainstreaming

Author(s): Mikkel Bækby Johansen
Published in: Popular Communication, 2025, ISSN 1540-5702
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2025.2575305

Mainstreaming violent extremism through language play in the Halle manifesto

Author(s): Line Nybro Petersen, Marie Bojsen-Møller, Tanya Karoli Christensen
Published in: Popular Communication, 2026, ISSN 1540-5702
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2026.2617547

The violence of online conspiracy theories

Author(s): Line Nybro Petersen, Mikkel Bækby Johansen
Published in: New Media & Society, Issue 28, 2026, ISSN 1461-4448
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14614448251336431

Lost in the scroll: Emotional impacts of social media use among middle-aged adults.

Author(s): Vasiliki Christodoulou, Pinelopi Konstantinou, Andrea Photiou, Kalypso Iordanou
Published in: Psychology of Popular Media, 2026, ISSN 2689-6575
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
DOI: 10.1037/PPM0000671

A changing digital landscape of extremism in the Nordic countries: Introduction to the special issue

Author(s): Mikkel Bækby Johansen, Line Nybro Petersen
Published in: Nordicom Review, Issue 47, 2026, ISSN 2001-5119
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.2478/NOR-2026-0007

Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media

Author(s): Line Nybro Petersen; Mikkel Bækby Johansen
Published in: Social Media + Society, 2025, ISSN 2056-3051
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/20563051251340145

Conference proceedings (1)

Social Media Narratives: Addressing Extremism in Middle Age (SMIDGE)

Author(s): Jason Lee; Sara Wilford; Raouf Hamzaoui; Nitika Bhalla
Published in: European Conference on Social Media, 2024
DOI: 10.34190/ECSM.11.1.2253

Other (1)

Extremism on Social Media: Nordic Perspectives

Author(s): Mikkel Bækby Johansen , Line Nybro Petersen (Eds.)
Published in: NORDICOM REVIEW, Issue 47 (s1), 2026, ISSN 2001-5119
Publisher: NORDICOM