1st Edition

Challenging Extremist Views on Social Media Developing a Counter-Messaging Response

By Jan-Jaap van Eerten, Bertjan Doosje Copyright 2020
182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a timely and significant examination of the role of counter-messaging via social media as a potential means of preventing or countering radicalization to violent extremism. In recent years, extremist groups have developed increasingly sophisticated online communication strategies to spread their propaganda and promote their cause, enabling messages to be spread more rapidly and... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Radicalization, narratives and social media

Chapter 3: Counter-narrative campaigns as a tool for radicalization prevention or de-radicalization?

Chapter 4: Developing a counter-narrative campaign

Chapter 5: Determining campaign effectiveness

Chapter 6: The role of the government

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Biography

Jan-Jaap van Eerten is a Researcher at Labyrinth Research and Consultancy in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He received his Master’s degrees in Islam in the Modern World and Conflict Studies and Human Rights from the University of Utrecht in 2012 and 2013, respectively. From 2015 to 2017 he conducted research into the utility of social media counter-narrative programs for radicalization prevention and de-radicalization as part of the research team of Bertjan Doosje at the University of Amsterdam.

Bertjan Doosje is Professor of Radicalization Studies in the department of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received his PhD on stereotyping in intergroup contexts in 1995 (cum laude). Since then he has examined intergroup relations in general and, after 9/11/2001, he has developed a special focus on radicalization and terrorism.