“Storming the Castle.” Examining the Motivations of the Veterans Who
                        Participated in the Capitol Riots

Hodges, Eric B.

doi:10.21061/jvs.v7i3.274

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“…Such research could examine available data from other current contexts, such as lone‐wolf terrorists like the Boston Marathon Bombers, and the Toulouse and Montauban terror attacks (Regan, 2022). Indeed, work is needed to find if this theory helps explain the effects of such affordance for identity‐driven escalation in leading individuals to participate as collective radicals, such as military veterans in the U.S. Capital riot January 6th, 2021 (Hodges, 2021). More importantly, given the global trends toward political polarisation, society will need more work on the transferability of knowledge about escalation‐affordance to future contexts.…”

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Explaining online conspiracy theory radicalization: A second‐order affordance for identity‐driven escalation

Mikhaeil

Baskerville

2023

Information Systems Journal

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From #Pizzagate to anti‐vaxxers, passing by 9/11 or Obama ‘birthers’, we have seen many communities growing on social media around conspiracy theories and thereby gaining public prominence. Debunking or presenting alternative views to conspiracy theories often fails because individuals within these communities can grow more resolute, encouraging and reinforcing their beliefs online. Instead of withering in the face of contradiction, such communities hunker down; escalating their commitment to their conspiratorial beliefs. By interacting over social media platforms, they develop a sense of a shared social identity, which in turn fosters escalating behaviours and can lead to radicalization. For some people, the choice of abandoning or moderating these beliefs is unthinkable because they are too deeply invested to quit. This study advances a second‐order affordance for identity‐driven escalation that explains the process of conspiracy theory radicalization within online communities. We offer a theoretical account of the way social media platforms contribute to escalating commitment to conspiracy radicalization. We show how the sequential and combined actualization of first‐order affordances of the technology enables a second‐order affordance for escalation.

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Explaining online conspiracy theory radicalization: A second‐order affordance for identity‐driven escalation

Mikhaeil

Baskerville

2023

Information Systems Journal

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“…The group is vulnerable to groupthink (Forsyth, 2020). Examples of a groups functioning with more attachment avoidance include the capital rioters and nationalist groups that promote blind patriotism (Hodges, 2021).…”

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Attachments, trauma, and COVID-19: Implications for leaders, groups, and social justice.

Marmarosh¹

2022

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Objective: The present article applies attachment theory to understand the impact of COVID-19 on social inequities, discrimination, and oppression of people based on their different group identities (e.g., race, class, ability, gender, faith). Method: Theory and research was reviewed in the area social and clinical psychology. The link between attachment and outgroup behavior, transgenerational trauma, and group leadership was discussed. After careful review of the literature, the link between attachment, trauma, epistemic trust, and reflective functioning, at the individual and group level was explored. Results: During the pandemic, individuals were more inclined to rely on their group identities and vulnerable to devalue out-groups. They were more at risk of experiencing traumatic reactions that can compromise their ability to tolerate conflict in groups. However, group interventions were still an important resource during this challenging time. Conclusion: The author recommends more research and attention on facilitating secure attachments, training group leaders, addressing transgenerational trauma in groups, promoting the use of group interventions, and increasing efforts toward social justice.

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Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis

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Journal of Information Technology

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Social media technology not only affords opportunities for digital activism and global liberation, but it also poses threats to the freewheeling of democracy. The emergence and prevalence of conspiracy theories on social media stem from communal processes of online political debate or social movements that degenerate into conspiracy beliefs. This study views the online formation of conspiracy theories as a socially emergent process. Subscribing to a social constructionist lens and synthesizing extant literature on social movements and social media affordances, we conducted discourse analysis on discursive data collected from Twitter for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Fraud Conspiracy Theory. Through the analysis, we delineate the formation of conspiracy theory into four stages and characterize each stage according to its mobilizing structure, participants, mode of interaction, content created, and discernible collective action. We also identify social media affordances facilitating the formation of conspiracy theories within and across stages. Findings of this study advance contemporary knowledge on conspiracy theories by not only extending our understanding of the role of social media in conspiracy theory formation, but they also aid practitioners in comprehending the formation process of conspiracy theory formation, the latter of which constitutes the foundation for devising appropriate prevention and mitigation strategies.

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“Storming the Castle.” Examining the Motivations of the Veterans Who Participated in the Capitol Riots

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Explaining online conspiracy theory radicalization: A second‐order affordance for identity‐driven escalation

Explaining online conspiracy theory radicalization: A second‐order affordance for identity‐driven escalation

Attachments, trauma, and COVID-19: Implications for leaders, groups, and social justice.

Unveiling the formation of conspiracy theory on social media: A discourse analysis

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