Exploring the “Demand Side” of Online Radicalization: Evidence from the Canadian Context
Journal abstract
We examined whether and how social media play a role in the process of radicalization, and whether and for what purposes extremists use social media after they become radicalized within a sample of fifty-one Canadian extremists. Differences between converts and non-converts in terms of their radicalization process, involvement in terrorism, and social media usage were also investigated. Data were collected from a combination of media reports via an in-depth LexisNexis search and court records obtained from The Canadian Legal Information Institute database. The results confirm that social media played a role either during or after the radicalization process of the majority of the sample and converts are more vulnerable to online radicalization than non-converts.
- Journal : Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
- Author : Mehmet F. Bastug, Aziz Douai, Davut Akca
- Date : 2017
- Link : http://bit.ly/2DBSpSi