Project

Radicalization and new social media.

Code
12A23012
Duration
01 February 2012 → 30 April 2014
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Criminology
Keywords
radicalization extremism New Social Media
 
Project description

The project aims at gaining insight into how exposure to extremist content through NSM has an impact on violent expressions of radicalzation and (self)-recruitment among Belgian adolecents. Both quantitative and qualitatative data are gathered and analyzed. (1) A survey was conducted using facebook. 6020 respondents make up the dataset. Binary logistic regression was used. (2) Face-to-face interviews have been conducted.