Social Media and the Use of Discursive Markers of Online Extremism and Recruitment

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Author(s): Robyn Torok (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 31
Source title: Combating Violent Extremism and Radicalization in the Digital Era
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Majeed Khader (Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore), Loo Seng Neo (Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore), Gabriel Ong (Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore), Eunice Tan Mingyi (Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore)and Jeffery Chin (Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0156-5.ch003

Keywords: Ethics & Law / Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics / Sociology

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This chapter examines the shift toward the use of social media to fuel violent extremism, what the key discursive markers are, and how these key discursive markers are used to fuel violent extremism. The chapter then addresses and critiques a number of radicalisation models including but not limited to phase based models. Discursive markers are covered under three broad narrative areas. Narratives of grievance are designed to stimulate strong emotive responses to perceived injustices. Based on these grievances, active agency is advocated in the form of jihad as a path that one should follow. Finally, a commitment to martyrdom is sought as the goal of these discursive markers.

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