Speaking & Press

Talks, conference presentations, and media coverage

Invited talks, conference presentations, and media coverage of Alex Newhouse’s research on online extremism and political violence.

Last updated: April 2026

Book me to speak

I give talks for academic, policy, and industry audiences on online extremism, AI safety, gaming and political violence, and computational methods. For invitations, contact alex.newhouse@colorado.edu.

Conference presentations

  • APSA 2025 — “‘The Happening Is Coming’: Apocalyptic Rhetoric on 4chan Following Mass Casualty Attacks.”
  • APSA 2025 — “Partisan Polarization Shapes Visual Framing of COVID-19 in U.S. Media” (with Philips & Kaur).
  • MPSA 2025 — “Elite Influence in an Online Neo-Fascist Forum.”
  • MPSA 2025 — “Partisan Polarization Shapes Visual Framing of COVID-19.”
  • MPSA 2024 — “Media Bias in COVID-19 Coverage.”
  • New Frontiers in Text as Data 2023 — “Manifesting a Coup: Cross-Website Toxicity and Extremism on the Dot-Win Network Prior to January 6, 2021” (poster).
  • Game Developers Conference 2023 — “Mitigating Harm in Design.”
  • Terrorism and Social Media 2022 — “Accelerationism Research in Practice.”
  • Game Developers Conference 2022 — “The Landscape of Extremist Behavior in Games.”
  • Reactionary Digital Politics 2021 — “The Aesthetics of Acceleration.”

Media coverage

Washington Post New York Times NPR BBC Politico Wired Bloomberg Meet the Press Vice Axios FiveThirtyEight ProPublica Denver7

Radio & podcast

NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, On Point · BBC · Bloomberg Radio.

Written features

Washington Post · New York Times · Vice · Axios · Politico · FiveThirtyEight · Wired · ProPublica.

Video

Meet the Press Now · Denver7.

Public writing

For full list of public-facing writing, see Writing. Highlights:

  • The Conversation — “Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on the US Capitol” (Jan 2021, 35,400 reads).
  • The Conversation — “Parler is bringing together mainstream conservatives, anti-Semites and white supremacists…” (Nov 2020, 241,000 reads).
  • Just Security — “Insiders’ View of the January 6th Committee’s Social Media Investigation” (Jackson, Conroy, Newhouse, Jan 2023).

Topics I speak on

  • Online radicalization and the structure of decentralized extremist movements
  • AI safety, generative models, and the misuse of LLMs
  • Gaming platforms as sites of political socialization and recruitment
  • Trust & Safety: research-to-practice translation
  • Computational social science methods for policy audiences
  • The January 6th investigation: lessons for studying online-to-offline mobilization
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