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dc.contributor.authorLee, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorKnott, Kim
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-12T12:16:07Z
dc.date.available2021-01-12T12:16:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-08
dc.identifier271302459
dc.identifier019ae735-24a6-4e93-ad28-d9dd572b02de
dc.identifier85099292616
dc.identifier000606614200001
dc.identifier.citationLee , B & Knott , K 2021 , ' Fascist aspirants : fascist forge and ideological learning in the extreme right online milieu ' , Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression , vol. Latest articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2020.1850842en
dc.identifier.issn1943-4472
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21263
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, under Grant ES/N009614/1 (Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats) with funding from the UK Intelligence Community and participating universities.en
dc.description.abstractLearning in extremist settings is often treated as operational, with little regard to how aspiring participants in extremist settings engage with complex and abstract ideological material. This paper examines learning in the context of the amorphous network of digital channels that compose the extreme-right online milieu. Through an in-depth qualitative analysis, we explore how well the prevailing model of extremist ideological learning (in ‘communities of practice’) accounts for the behaviour of aspiring participants of Fascist Forge, a now-defunct extreme-right web forum. The findings suggest that some of the social aspects of communities of practice have been replicated in the online setting of Fascist Forge. However, for a combination of technical and ideological reasons, the more directed and nurturing aspects of learning have not. Several issues are raised about the role of ideological learning in online communities, notably the open accessibility of extremist material, the lack of ideological control leading to potential mutation and innovation by self-learners, and the role of digital learning in the preparation, shaping and recruitment of individuals for real world organising and activism.
dc.format.extent25
dc.format.extent2063701
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBehavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggressionen
dc.subjectExtremismen
dc.subjectLearningen
dc.subjectIdeologyen
dc.subjectExtreme-righten
dc.subjectFascist Forgeen
dc.subjectCommunities of practiceen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.titleFascist aspirants : fascist forge and ideological learning in the extreme right online milieuen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19434472.2020.1850842
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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