Radicalization and Violent Emotions

Stekelenburg, Jacquelien van

doi:10.1017/s1049096517001020

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“…As a counterpoise of the previous radical content, we have selected two online newspapers that address ISIS-related issues but are not radical sources: CNN 2 and The New York Times 3 . These sources have been selected since both represent prominent newspapers that frequently mention radical and ISIS-related topics from a neutral perspective.…”

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An Approach for Radicalization Detection Based on Emotion Signals and Semantic Similarity

Araque

Iglesias

2020

IEEE Access

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The Internet has become an important tool for modern terrorist groups as a means of spreading their propaganda messages and recruitment purposes. Previous studies have shown that the analysis of social signs can help in the analysis, detection, and prediction of radical users. In this work, we focus on the analysis of affect signs in social media and social networks, which has not been yet previously addressed. The article contributions are: (i) a novel dataset to be used in radicalization detection works, (ii) a method for utilizing an emotion lexicon for radicalization detection, and (iii) an application to the radical detection domain of an embedding-based semantic similarity model. Results show that emotion can be a reliable indicator of radicalization, as well as that the proposed feature extraction methods can yield high-performance scores. INDEX TERMS Affective computing, machine learning, natural language processing, terrorism, radicalism.

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“…Recent works in social science [3], [4] have highlighted the role of emotions for understanding terrorism. In [3], van Stekelenburg argues that the radicalization process can be conceived as an emotional transformation consisting of three phases. In the first phase, the group perceives injustice from an out-group fueled by anger.…”

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An Approach for Radicalization Detection Based on Emotion Signals and Semantic Similarity

Araque

Iglesias

2020

IEEE Access

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“…In contrast to already established views that mainly address negative emotions such as humiliation, fear, hate, anger, guilt, contempt, and disgust (e.g., Lindner, 2001;Bar-Tal et al, 2007;Wright-Neville and Smith, 2009;Feddes et al, 2012;Baele et al, 2014;Matsumoto et al, 2015;Baele, 2017;van Stekelenburg, 2017), we would like to also stress the importance of positive emotions, which in combination with negative emotions play a vital role in paving the path to radicalization. A radical organization in its ideology provides its followers with various positive emotions such as hope for a better future, pride of belonging to a certain group or religion, feeling of power as being member of a strong and feared group, and love for the radical ideology and those who follow it, fostering a sense of brotherhood among the members of the group.…”

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Radicalization Through the Lens of Situated Affectivity

2020

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Affective bonding to radical organizations is one of the most prominent features of a recruit's personality. To better understand how affective bonding is established during the recruitment of youth for radicalization and how it is maintained afterward, it seems promising to adopt new insights and developments from the field of situated cognition and affectivity, particularly the concepts of Affective Scaffolding, Mind Invasion, and Self-Stimulatory Loops of Affectivity (SSLA). The three notions highlight both the intended structuring of the affective bonding by the recruiting organizations and the immersive influence these settings have on the individuals. We will study the affective bonding between an individual and a radical group from two perspectives: first, from an organizational perspective, and second from a personal perspective. The first aims at understanding how extremist organizations "invade the mind" of young people, by providing carefully designed affective scaffolding: (a) during the recruitment process and (b) while being a full member of the organization. The second aims at identifying some of the affective loops which individuals who have joined the radical organization enter.

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“…However, future analyses could focus on the relevance of individual pre-ideological negative states of mind due to the coronavirus crisis, such as feelings of frustration (see Hogg and Blaylock 2012, chapter 9;Jasko et al 2017) and anger (see Horgan 2008, 84 ff. ;Van Stekelenburg 2017), and, in particular, the influence of trigger events in personal life (for example, a trauma, a job loss, financial issues) (see also Kruglanki and Fishman 2009). Cases such as Corey H.'s incident, in which strictly personal states of mind and grievances are projected onto ideological motivations, could become even more frequent.…”

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Hate in the time of coronavirus: exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent extremism and terrorism in the West

Marone

2021

Secur J

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Radicalization and Violent Emotions

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

An Approach for Radicalization Detection Based on Emotion Signals and Semantic Similarity

An Approach for Radicalization Detection Based on Emotion Signals and Semantic Similarity

Radicalization Through the Lens of Situated Affectivity

Hate in the time of coronavirus: exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violent extremism and terrorism in the West

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