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About Miro Dittrich
Miro Dittrich is co-CEO at CeMAS, jointly with Gregor Bauer, and works as a Senior Researcher with a focus on right-wing extremism. He studies the intersection of technology and society with an emphasis on misanthropic and antidemocratic phenomena in the digital sphere. Employing qualitative and quantitative as well as OSINT-based methodologies, he analyses the propaganda, network, and radicalization of the extreme right online. Since 2019, his research centers around international extreme-right terrorism and digital sub-cultures. To this end, he heads the CeMAS project Digital Seismograph: Monitoring Terrorism. His expertise further encompasses issues around content moderation. As an expert on the extreme-right, he provides consultation to various social media companies on a regular basis. Between 2018 and 2020, he managed the project de:hate at Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
Quotes
„You can’t understand the far-right without understanding the internet. You can’t understand the internet without understanding the far-right.“
Publications (Selection)
Miro Dittrich, Joe Düker, Martin Müller (2023). Where’s the Money at? Rechtsextreme Spendenfinanzierung über Telegram
Miro Dittrich, Jan Rathje, Thilo Manemann, Frank Müller (2022). Militant Accelerationism - Origins and Developments in Germany
Miro Dittrich, Anne Grandjean, Lukas Jäger, Jan Rathje (2020). QAnon in Deutschland
Miro Dittrich, Lukas Jäger, Claire-Friederike Meyer, Simone Rafael (2020). Alternative Wirklichkeiten - Monitoring rechts-alternativer Medienstrategien
Johannes Baldauf, Miro Dittrich, Melanie Hermann, Britta Kollberg, Robert Lüdecke, Jan Rathje (2017). Toxische Narrative - Monitoring Rechts-alternativer Akteure
Presentations and Talks (Selected)
20.06.2022 Conspiracy theories - a challenge to democracies, a threat to societies, Brüssel, Paneldiskussion Unesco und European Jewish Congress
10.06.2022 Und raus bist du?! Desinformation, Propaganda und Verschwörungsglauben auf Social Media: Chancen und Grenzen von Deplatforming, Paneldiskussion Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
07.05.2020 Die Coronavirus-Pandemie als Agitationsfeld für Rechtsextremismus, re:publica 20, ASAP
13.09.2019 Far-Right as Global Community: Connected Through Memes Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Cultural Formations of the “Alt-Right”
27.04.2018 Buzzwords and real Problems: Toxische Narrative, Salzburg, Universität Salzburg, Demokratie & (Des-)Informationsgesellschaft
