The Language of Radicalization: Female Internet Recruitment to Participation in ISIS Activities

Windsor, Leah C.

doi:10.1080/09546553.2017.1385457

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“…Research on social media use by female Islamic State recruits has demonstrated these trends. For example, some women affiliated with ISIS are prolific social media users and actively engage with readers of their content (Loken and Zelenz 2018;Windsor 2018). If these findings from experimental research and prior studies on gendered patterns of engagement on social media are valid, we would expect to see that FARC women also use social media more and demonstrate greater engagement than men, for example through retweets, likes, and number of followers.…”

Section: Gender Social Media and Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Peace with a Woman’s Face’: Women, Social Media and the Colombian Peace Process

Henshaw

2020

Contexto int.

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The idea that men and women approach conflict resolution differently forms the backbone of the international agenda on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and is supported by a growing body of scholarship in international relations. However, the role of women who represent insurgent groups in peace talks remains understudied, given the relatively rare appearance of such women in peace processes. The present study examines how men and women from the negotiating team of the Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia (FARC) engaged in public-facing discourse on Twitter leading up to a referendum on the peace accords in 2016. Using a mixed-methods approach that includes computational analysis and a close reading of social media posts, I demonstrate that women in the FARC’s negotiating team were more successful social media users than their male counterparts and that they offered a distinct contribution to the discourse on peace, centring the relevance of gender and promoting issue linkages like the need to address LGBTI rights.

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Section: Gender Social Media and Peacebuildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Peace with a Woman’s Face’: Women, Social Media and the Colombian Peace Process

Henshaw

2020

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“…The seed text selected from the journal paper explicitly provides identification of extremist text as propaganda, radicalization, or recruitment [9,10,14], which are limited in numbers. Journal papers were selected from a database similar to our work in [6,15].…”

Section: Research Articles and Reportsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Ideology ISIS/Jihadist White Supremacist (MIWS) Dataset for Multi-Class Extremism Text Classification

Gaikwad

Ahirrao

Phansalkar

et al. 2021

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Social media platforms are a popular choice for extremist organizations to disseminate their perceptions, beliefs, and ideologies. This information is generally based on selective reporting and is subjective in content. However, the radical presentation of this disinformation and its outreach on social media leads to an increased number of susceptible audiences. Hence, detection of extremist text on social media platforms is a significant area of research. The unavailability of extremism text datasets is a challenge in online extremism research. The lack of emphasis on classifying extremism text into propaganda, radicalization, and recruitment classes is a challenge. The lack of data validation methods also challenges the accuracy of extremism detection. This research addresses these challenges and presents a seed dataset with a multi-ideology and multi-class extremism text dataset. This research presents the construction of a multi-ideology ISIS/Jihadist White supremacist (MIWS) dataset with recent tweets collected from Twitter. The presented dataset can be employed effectively and importantly to classify extremist text into popular types like propaganda, radicalization, and recruitment. Additionally, the seed dataset is statistically validated with a coherence score of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and word mover’s distance using a pretrained Google News vector. The dataset shows effectiveness in its construction with good coherence scores within a topic and appropriate distance measures between topics. This dataset is the first publicly accessible multi-ideology, multi-class extremism text dataset to reinforce research on extremism text detection on social media platforms.

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“…Her case was highly unusual in that most jihadist attacks are committed by men, with the vast majority of Islamic propagandist urging women to participate in support actions only. However, during questioning after her arrest, she noted that she overcame these gender and ideological barriers to action after viewing videos of Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who decreed "even women" had a duty to engage in jihadist attacks (Windsor, 2018).…”

Section: Psychological Operations In Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neurocognitive hacking

Heslen

2020

Polit. life sci.

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This article presents a discussion of neurocognitive hacking and its potential for use at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of cyber conflict. Neurocognitive hacking refers to the ability to activate specific neural areas of the brain, via subliminal or supraliminal stimuli, to shape the behavioral outcomes of an adversary. Research suggests that awareness of mortality-related stimuli has neural correlates in the right amygdala and left anterior cingulate cortex and mediates negative behavior toward out-group members, including unconscious discriminatory behavior. Given its in-group/out-group dynamic, the phenomenon could be exploited for use in information operations toward target populations, specifically ones that are multiethnic, multicultural, or multireligious. Although development of the theoretical framework behind neurocognitive hacking is ongoing, mortality-related stimuli are proposed to activate one’s unconscious vigilance system to further evaluate the locus and viability of the suspect stimuli. Research suggests that the subsequent discriminatory affective reactions directed toward out-group members are representative of automatic heuristics evolved to protect the organism in the event a stimulus represents a more serious threat to survival. Therefore, presenting mortality-related stimuli over computer networks to targeted audiences may facilitate the ingestion of tailored propaganda or shaping of specific behavioral outcomes within a population, including sowing division in a target community or weakening support for a specific political regime.

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The Language of Radicalization: Female Internet Recruitment to Participation in ISIS Activities

Cited by 36 publications

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‘Peace with a Woman’s Face’: Women, Social Media and the Colombian Peace Process

‘Peace with a Woman’s Face’: Women, Social Media and the Colombian Peace Process

Multi-Ideology ISIS/Jihadist White Supremacist (MIWS) Dataset for Multi-Class Extremism Text Classification

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