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Online Radicalization: Contested Terms and Conceptual Clarity

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Joe Whittaker Orcid Logo

Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization, Pages: 33 - 46

Swansea University Authors: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Joe Whittaker Orcid Logo

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National governments and international governmental organisations have identified online radicalisation as one of today’s most pressing security challenges. It is thus unsurprising that there is a burgeoning literature on the topic. Within this literature, use of the terms “radicalisation”, “self-ra...

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Published in: Online Terrorist Propaganda, Recruitment, and Radicalization
ISBN: 9781315170251
Published: Boca Raton CRC Press 2019
Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315170251
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