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ENVISION Student Poster Contest

At ENVISION22, NCITE hosted a student poster contest, sponsored by industry partner Splunk, in which students throughout the consortium were able to showcase their research endeavors.

  • published: 2022/11/06

NCITE hosted a student research poster contest at ENVISION22. Students were asked to present their research findings and discuss their projects with attendees throughout the conference. NCITE's research team recognized three standout posters with awards at the conclusion of the conference.

Big Ideas in Terrorism and Targeted Violence Award – Joseph Stewart & Cecelia Gordon (University of Oklahoma)

Project title: Group Messaging Tactics: Effects of Embedded Social Identities in Messaging on Follower Emotion, Information, Recall, and Dissemination in Online Platforms

  • This project extends prior research on ideological group messaging tactics by using well-designed experimental methods to understand how online messaging can encourage aggressive behavior. Triangulating findings from a separate archival study effort comparing violent and nonviolent ideological groups, the team examined how appealing to people’s inherent (e.g., minority status) and chosen (e.g., political affiliation) social identities can incite aggression and intended desire to spread ideological messages.

Research Accessibility Award – Jeffrey Vargas (San Diego State University)

Project title: Weaponizing Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

  • Simple in its presentation yet forward-thinking in its conception, this project made a clear and concise case for the potential dangers of fentanyl for targeted violence and mass casualty attacks. The poster offered accessible, practitioner-friendly knowledge about fentanyl and highlighted potential misuses (and counter strategies) without misrepresenting the current fentanyl crisis.


Data Modernization Award – Christian Seto (Arizona State University)

Project title: Exploring Moral Foundation Framings in Terrorist Organizations via Natural Language Processing and Visualization

  • Qualitative text data are notoriously difficult to organize, analyze, and present. This project overcame this challenge by developing and using novel automated methods to visualize and analyze the language of domestic extremist leaders’ speeches. Such an innovation made this poster a perfect fit for the Data Modernization Award.

The student poster contest was sponsored by industry partner Splunk.