Youth And Violent Extremism On Social Media: Mapping The Research

By Séraphin Alava Divina Frau-Meigs and Ghayda Hassan

This work provides a global mapping of research (mainly during 2012-16) about the assumed roles played by social media in violent radicalization processes, especially when they affect youth and women. The research responds to the belief that the Internet at large is an active vector for violent radicalization that facilitates the proliferation of violent extremist ideologies. Indeed, much research shows that protagonists are indeed heavily spread throughout the Internet.

UNESCO. Paris. 2017. 167p.