Collaborative Research: Interpersonal Pathways to Radicalization & Deradicalization

合作研究：激进化的人际途径

• 批准号: 2241834
• 负责人: Carly Wayne
• 金额: $ 31.85万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Interpersonal; Pathways; Radicalization

Collaborative Research: Interpersonal Pathways to Radicalization and DeradicalizationPolitical extremism around the world has increased in recent years, representing a global security issue. Despite the growing threat of extremism, there is still much we do not know about how radicalization and deradicalization occur outside of the Jihadi extremism context. The research team argues that a key driver of radicalization is interpersonal communication on social media, where potential recruits are connected with extremist thought leaders from around the world. However, interpersonal interactions in conversational settings may also have the potential to deradicalize. This project will use social media data to investigate how interpersonal communication may facilitate radicalization as well as experiments involving real conversations to investigate potential avenues for deradicalization in interpersonal settings. The findings of this project will offer key insights for policymakers seeking to limit the proliferation of extremist content on social media and deescalate and disrupt patterns of interpersonal radicalization. This project will conduct two complementary studies to investigate how interpersonal communication radicalizes and deradicalizes via informational and affective pathways. First, the researchers will develop and analyze a large-scale social media dataset containing posts and interactions between extremist leaders around the world and their followers across seven social media platforms, The dataset will be used to examine how extremists use the power of information and affect to further radicalize followers via interpersonal communication. Second, the researchers will conduct an experiment involving real-time conversations between moderate and extremist participants to test informational and affective interventions that equip moderates with conversational tools to persuade and deradicalize extremists. The findings of this project will contribute to significant advances in basic research not only on the use of social media and online communication in radicalization processes, but also how interpersonal communication strategies can be used to achieve deradicalization.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

合作研究：激进化和去激进化的人际途径近年来，世界各地的政治极端主义有所抬头，成为全球安全问题。尽管极端主义的威胁日益严重，但对于圣战极端主义背景之外的激进化和去激进化如何发生，我们仍然知之甚少。研究小组认为，激进化的一个关键驱动因素是社交媒体上的人际交流，潜在的招募者与来自世界各地的极端主义思想领袖建立了联系。然而，对话环境中的人际互动也可能有去激进化的可能性。该项目将使用社交媒体数据来调查人际沟通如何促进激进化，并通过涉及真实对话的实验来调查人际环境中去激进化的潜在途径。该项目的研究结果将为寻求限制社交媒体上极端主义内容扩散、降低和破坏人际激进化模式的政策制定者提供重要见解。 该项目将进行两项补充研究，以调查人际沟通如何通过信息和情感途径激进化和去激进化。首先，研究人员将开发和分析一个大型社交媒体数据集，其中包含世界各地极端主义领导人及其追随者在七个社交媒体平台上的帖子和互动，该数据集将用于研究极端分子如何利用信息的力量并影响通过人际交流进一步激化追随者。其次，研究人员将进行一项实验，涉及温和派和极端主义参与者之间的实时对话，以测试信息和情感干预措施，为温和派提供对话工具，以说服极端分子并使其去激进化。该项目的研究结果将有助于基础研究取得重大进展，不仅涉及社交媒体和在线传播在激进化过程中的使用，而且还涉及如何利用人际传播策略来实现去激进化。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。