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IEEE Access, 2021 Social media platforms are popular for expressing personal views, emotions and beliefs. Social media platforms are influential for propagating extremist ideologies for group-building, fund-raising, and recruitment.
Mayur Gaikwad +3 more
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Online Extremism: Research Trends in Internet Activism, Radicalization, and Counter-Strategies
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2020 This article reviews the academic literature on how and for what purposes violent extremists use the Internet, at both an individual and organizational level.
Charlie Winter +5 more
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Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature
Games Cult., 2023 Hate speech, harassment, and an increasing prevalence of right-wing extremism in online game spaces are of growing concern in the United States. Understanding trends in how and to what extent extremist groups utilize online gaming spaces is vital in ...
Garrison Wells +5 more
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Information Systems Journal, 2023 Online extremism remains a persistent problem despite the best efforts of governments, tech companies and civil society. Digital technologies can induce group polarization to promote extremism and cause substantial changes to extremism (e.g., create new ...
Marten Risius +3 more
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Cultural threat perceptions predict violent extremism via need for cognitive closure
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Significance Triangulating methodological approaches (correlational, experimental, meta-analysis, and field research) with diverse samples (i.e., general populations and former violent extremists), we show that cultural threat perceptions lead to ...
Milan Obaidi +5 more
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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2021 Increased immigration and demographic changes have not only resulted in political pushback, but also in violent attacks against immigrants. Several recent terrorist attacks committed by White supremacists invoke rhetoric around a deliberate attempt to ...
Milan Obaidi +3 more
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What Is It to Explain Extremism?
Terrorism and Political Violence, 2023 This article explores what it is to explain extremism. Rather than providing yet another explanation of extremism, it takes a bird’s eye point of view at existing explanations of extremism.
Rik Peels
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International and local NGOs addressing violent and hateful extremism in Kenya
Conflict, Security & Development, 2023 A string of terror attacks in Kenya in the late 2000s necessitated robust counter terrorism responses by the Government. The Washington-led countering violent extremism strategy in 2011 came as a salvage tool for countering violent extremism programmes ...
F. A. Badurdeen
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Ideological extremism, perceived party system polarization, and support for democracy
European Political Science Review, 2022 Does ideological polarization undermine or strengthen people’s principled support for democracy? In this study, we suggest that different manifestations of ideological polarization have different implications in this respect.
Mariano Torcal, Pedro C. Magalhães
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Extremism and the Extreme Personality
, 2023 Abstract Behavioral extremism takes different forms and shapes, including violent extremism, extreme dieting, extreme passion, and extreme infatuations. The authors look at these various behaviors through the lens of the goal systems theory and argue that all cases of extremism stem from motivational imbalance whereby a given need (or a ...
Szumowska, Ewa +2 more
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