The Role of Social Networks in the Recruitment of Youth in an Islamist Organization in Pakistan

Ahmad, Akhlaq

doi:10.1080/02732173.2014.947450

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“…The most prominent example in the literature is the Islamic State and its recruitment methods (Berger, 2015;Fisher, 2015;Gates and Podder, 2015;Lakomy, 2017;Zelin, 2015). For Pakistan, Ahmad (2014) examined the role of social networks in the recruitment of young people in an Islamist student organization and found that the connection to people already active in this organization plays a more important role in their decision to join than ideological or political reasons. Aal et al (2018) emphasize the importance of mutual influence of mass media and digital media as well as differences in the intensity of use of social media in different countries when analysing media use in conflict contexts.…”

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Discussing conflict in social media: The use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict

Gabel

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Reuter

2020

Media, War & Conflict

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Social media have come to play a vital role not only in our everyday lives, but also in times of conflict and crisis such as natural disasters or civil wars. Recent research has highlighted, on the one hand, the use of social media as a means of recruitment by terrorists and, on the other hand, the use of Facebook, Twitter, etc. to gain the support of the population during insurgencies. This article conducts a qualitative content analysis of content on Twitter concerning the conflict in the Jammu and Kashmir region. The tweets following the death of a popular militant, Burhan Wani, cover three different themes: (1) criticism of intellectuals; (2) Burhan Wani’s impact on the conflict; and (3) tweets referring to the conflict itself. Generally, people use Twitter to make their own point of view clear to others and discredit the opposing party; at the same time, tweets reflect the antagonism between the two parties to the conflict, India and Pakistan. The sample of tweets reflects the lack of awareness among people in the region regarding the motivations of the new generation of militancy emerging in Kashmir after 1990.

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Discussing conflict in social media: The use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict

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Reuter

2020

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The Emerging Role of Social Media in the Recruitment of Foreign Fighters

Weimann

2016

Foreign Fighters Under International Law and Beyond

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And After That We All became Like Brothers

Krivonos

2016

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This article examines how emotions create an affective solidarity in a pro-governmental youth movement in Russia. The article shows that despite a formally strong affiliation with the aims of political socialization of youth in Russia, young activists from Vse doma movement describe their participation in a political project through the joy of being together, communication (obschenie), emotional flows (dvizhuha), bodily and risky practices, rather than ideological values. Drawing on the scholarship on emotional politics and social movements, the article switches the lens from the political to emotional and embodied sense of engagement. The discussion in this article is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with young people. The article proposes the notion of 'affective solidarity' as a useful lens for the analysis of youth political activism.

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The Role of Social Networks in the Recruitment of Youth in an Islamist Organization in Pakistan

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Discussing conflict in social media: The use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict

Discussing conflict in social media: The use of Twitter in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict

The Emerging Role of Social Media in the Recruitment of Foreign Fighters

And After That We All became Like Brothers

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