Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature

2022/05/10 by Alice Marwick, Benjamin Clancy, Katherine Furl · 1 voice · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence #Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection #Social Media and Politics

paper · pdf · doi:10.21428/bfcb0bff.e9492a11

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Abstract

The adoption of extremist, far-right, and fringe beliefs is often referred to as "radicalization," which was formulated post-9/11 to understand jihadi terrorism, a very different context from the far-right.

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Discussions

• オンライン空間で政治的に過激化する人々の意識や行動については多くの研究が行われており、こちらはその文献レビューです。過激派の信念を拡散させる手段として、陰謀論的信念と制度への不信感を利用する傾向にあることが指摘されています。 Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature doi.org/10.21428/bfc... [bsky, 5 points, 0 comments]

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