Social media platforms like X and Facebook are becoming increasingly saturated in graphic violent content. The next discussion of our Transylvania Lectures series explores the consequences of this development and what it means for social media users. It also probes the broader political effects of violent online content, arguing that viral atrocity videos fuel polarization and political conflict. 

Our invited speaker will be Prof. Dr Simon Cottee, an honorary senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a contributing editor at Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. He is the author of Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization (2022), Black Flags of the Caribbean: How Trinidad Became an ISIS Hotspot (2021), ISIS and the Pornography of Violence (2019), and The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam (2015).  

The discussion will be moderated by Márton Varga-Mihály, journalist and presenter at the Romanian Public Television. 

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