The Original Web of Hate

Levin, Brian

doi:10.1177/0002764215588815

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“…However, along with the benefits of communications, video content, and smart phones, a range of security concerns have arisen. Terrorists have frequently been noted as early adopters of the Internet (Levin, 2015;UN CTED, 2015), using online fora, chat rooms, websites, and email in the Web's early days (Sageman, 2008a). More recently, the so-called Islamic State (hence IS) have utilised the web to conduct sophisticated online recruitment and propaganda campaigns (Klausen, 2015;Winter, 2015;Zelin, 2015;Ingram, 2016).…”

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Online Radicalisation: Moving Beyond a Simple Dichotomy

Herath

Whittaker

2021

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Online radicalisation to terrorism has become a pervasive policy concern over the last decade. However, as a concept it lacks clarity and empirical support. In this article, we add an empirical and theoretical lens to this problem by analysing the trajectories of 231 Islamic State terrorists. We use cluster analyses to create typologies of individuals' different online and offline antecedent behaviours, including the ways in which they engaged in networks with co-ideologues and how they prepared for their events. The findings suggest four types of pathway within our dataset: 1) The 'Integrated' pathway which has high network engagement both online and offline, mostly made up of individuals that plotted as part of a group; 2) The 'Encouraged' pathway contains individuals that acted more in the online domain at the expense of offline; 3) Terrorists in the 'Isolated' pathway are defined by a lack of interaction across either domain; 4) The 'Enclosed pathway encompassed actors that displayed greater offline network activity, but still utilised the Internet for planning their activity. These typologies help to move beyond the dichotomy of online or offline radicalisation; there remain few individuals that either exclusively use the Internet or do not use it at all. Rather, we can conceptualise Internet usage on a spectrum in which these four typologies all sit.

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Online Radicalisation: Moving Beyond a Simple Dichotomy

Herath

Whittaker

2021

Terrorism and Political Violence

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“…Besides that, the presence of Islamic websites is also not fully broadcasting Islam peacefully and politely, but more in the form of radicalism (Harianto 2018). The target of radicalization is Muslim youth, using the internet as a propaganda tool that can cause hatred between religious groups, cause internet users to become racist and Islamophobic, and spread various conspiracies (Levin 2015).…”

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Media Baru dan Paham Radikalisme Pada Kalangan Remaja Di Kota Kendari Sulawesi Tenggara

Aldilal,

Kanande,

Halid

et al. 2023

JSM

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Pemanfataan alat komunikasi yakni media baru yang terus menunjukan perkembangan pesat pada saat ini telah mengahadirkan beragam polemik akan perkembangan informasi dan cara berekspresi pada masyarakat di media baru, namun dalam perkembangannya media baru memberikan dampak yang baik dan juga buruk khususnya pada para pengguna media baru yakni Remaja. Pemanfaatan media baru juga pada saat ini dimanfaatkan oleh kelompok teroris untuk menyebarkan paham radikalismenya menggunakan media baru dengan tujuan untuk mempengaruhi atau melakukan perekrutan yang menyasar para remaja. Menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif, sampel penelitian diambil dengan metode purposive sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan data primer & data sekunder. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: Pertama, Remaja di Kota Kendari saat ini tidak memiliki panduan atau literasi mengenai paham-paham radikalisme di media sosial. Kedua, kebanyakan remaja di Kota Kendari memilih memberikan respon terhadap akun yang terindikasi paham radikal di media sosial dengan melaporkan akun tersebut. Ketiga, sedikit remaja merespon memilih untuk tetap melihat atau mengkonsumsi dan membiarkan akun yang menyebarkan paham radikal tersebut, kemungkinan akan rentan terpengaruh atau terpapar paham radikalisme.

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“…The target of radicalization is the Muslim youth in western countries. The use of the internet as a propaganda tool can cause hatred between religious communities, cause internet users to become racist and Islamophobic, and spread various conspiracies (Levin 2015). The success of Salafist extremists is proof that the internet can become a tool to radicalize and recruit youth to commit crime.…”

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The Shift from Consumers to Prosumers: Susceptibility of Young Adults to Radicalization

2020

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This article examines the radicalization of young adults in relation to internet access and the social media content produced and managed by radical groups in Indonesia. Some of the research problems that become the major concern of this article were how young people respond to the internet and social media that provide radical content, how they find out about and access the content, what their purposes are for accessing radical content, and what they do with the radical content. The data discussed in this article were obtained from surveys and interviews with 700 students from seven state universities in Indonesia who were allegedly exposed to radicalism, according to the National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT). The state universities that became research locations were the University of Indonesia (UI), Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Bogor Agriculture University (IPB), Diponegoro University (Undip), the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR), and the University of Brawijaya (UB). This study revealed that in addition to accessing and consuming various radical content, some students also acted as prosumers. That is, they did not only read, but also produced information related to radicalization, and then recirculated it via social media.

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The Original Web of Hate

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Online Radicalisation: Moving Beyond a Simple Dichotomy

Online Radicalisation: Moving Beyond a Simple Dichotomy

Media Baru dan Paham Radikalisme Pada Kalangan Remaja Di Kota Kendari Sulawesi Tenggara

The Shift from Consumers to Prosumers: Susceptibility of Young Adults to Radicalization

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