Linda Schlegel

Associate Fellow
Research Department:
Transnational Politics
Research Group Radicalization

E-Mail: schlegel@HSFK.de
Twitter: @LiSchlegel

CV

Since 2021	Research Fellow at the modus Centre for Applied Research on Deradicalisation
Since 2020	Associate Fellow at PRIF
Since 2020	PhD student at Goethe University Frankfurt
Since 2020	Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET)
2019–2020	Senior Editor for The Counterterrorism Group
2018–2019	Specialist for counter-terrorism and conflict management at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
2016–2017	M.A. Extremism Studies at King's College London
2012–2015	B.A. Liberal Arts at University College Maastricht

Linda Schlegel is working on the following issues:

Countering the misuse of gaming-related content & spaces: Inspiring practices and opportunities for cooperation with tech companies | 2022: Schlegel, Linda (2022): Countering the misuse of gaming-related content & spaces: Inspiring practices and opportunities for cooperation with tech companies, Brussels: EU Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs – Radicalisation Awareness Network, www.home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/(...).; Show details

“At least I tried, God damnit” and “Even a drop in the ocean is still more than nothing”: In their own words, what motivates people to work in P/CVE? | 2022: Schlegel, Linda (2022): “At least I tried, God damnit” and “Even a drop in the ocean is still more than nothing”: In their own words, what motivates people to work in P/CVE?, in: Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2022.2089399.; Show details

Examining the Intersection Between Gaming and Violent Extremism | 2022: Schlegel, Linda / Amarasingam, Amarnath (2022): Examining the Intersection Between Gaming and Violent Extremism, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism: UN Counter-Terrorism Centre, un.org/(...).; Show details

As You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): As You Like It: User Types in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes, PRIF Blog, 1.9.2021.; Show details

Extremists’ use of gaming (adjacent) platforms | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Extremists’ use of gaming (adjacent) platforms. Insights regarding primary and secondary prevention measures, Radicalisation Awareness Network, www.ec.europa.eu/(...).; Show details

Connecting, Competing, and Trolling: "User Types" in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Connecting, Competing, and Trolling: "User Types" in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes, in: Perspectives on Terrorism, 15:4, 54-64, https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/customsites/perspectives-on-terrorism/2021/issue-4/schlegel.pdf.; Show details

Telling tales against the dark arts: How fictional storytelling could support narrative campaigns against extremism | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Telling tales against the dark arts: How fictional storytelling could support narrative campaigns against extremism, PRIF Blog, 5.7.2021.; Show details

Storytelling against extremism | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Storytelling against extremism. How fiction could increase the persuasive impact of counter- and alternative narratives in P/CVE, in: Journal for Deradicalization, 27, https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/467/289.; Show details

The Gamification of Violent Extremism & Lessons For P/CVE | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): The Gamification of Violent Extremism & Lessons For P/CVE, https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/default/files/what-we-do/networks/radicalisation_awareness_network/ran-papers/docs/ran_ad-hoc_pap_gamification_20210215_en.pdf.; Show details

Let’s play prevention: Can P/CVE turn the tables on extremists’ use of gamification? | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Let’s play prevention: Can P/CVE turn the tables on extremists’ use of gamification?, PRIF Blog, 29.3.2021.; Show details

Missing an epic story: Why we are struggling to counter extremists’ utopian narratives | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): Missing an epic story: Why we are struggling to counter extremists’ utopian narratives, PRIF Blog, 5.3.2021.; Show details

The Role of Gamification in Radicalization Processes | 2021: Schlegel, Linda (2021): The Role of Gamification in Radicalization Processes, modus|zad (modus Zentrum für angewandte Deradikalisierungsforschung), Working Paper 1/2021, 14.1.2021.; Show details

Jumanji Extremism? How games and gamification could facilitate radicalization processes | 2020: Schlegel, Linda (2020): Jumanji Extremism? How games and gamification could facilitate radicalization processes, in: Journal for Deradicalization, 23, https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/359/223.; Show details

“Yes, I can”: what is the role of perceived self-efficacy in violent online-radicalisation processes of “homegrown” terrorists? | 2019: Schlegel, Linda (2019): “Yes, I can”: what is the role of perceived self-efficacy in violent online-radicalisation processes of “homegrown” terrorists?, in: Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 13:3, DOI: 10.1080/17467586.2019.1700539.; Show details

Online-Radikalisierung - Mythos oder Realität? | 2018: Schlegel, Linda (2018): Online-Radikalisierung - Mythos oder Realität?, Analysen & Argumente: Terrorismusabwehr und innere Sicherheit, 29.8.2018.; Show details

Fishermen or Swarm Dynamics? Should we understand jihadist online-radicalization as a top-down or bottom-up process? | 2017: Baaken, Till / Schlegel, Linda (2017): Fishermen or Swarm Dynamics? Should we understand jihadist online-radicalization as a top-down or bottom-up process?, in: Journal for Deradicalization, 13, 178-212, https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/127.; Show details

Digital natives and online identity construction: How does the Internet facilitate radicalization? | 2017: Schlegel, Linda (2017): Digital natives and online identity construction: How does the Internet facilitate radicalization?, Wissenschaft und Sicherheit, 1.2.2017.; Show details