Title:	A METHODOLOGY TO IDENTIFY EXTREMIST DISCOURSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Author(s):	Frédérique Segond, Sara Monaci, Muntsa Padro and Teodora Dobre
ISBN:	978-989-8533-80-7
Editors:	Ajith P. Abraham, Jörg Roth and Guo Chao Peng
Year:	2018
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Online Extremism, Social Media, Semantic Processing, Foreign Fighters
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	204
Last Page:	208
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Syria may be the first conflict in which a large number of foreign supporters have been documenting their involvement in conflict in real-time and where, in turn, social media represents an essential source of information and inspiration to them. In their minds, social media is no longer just virtual: it has become an essential facet of what happens on the ground. Beyond this function, social media platforms play a substantial role in disseminating terrorist propaganda and then in supporting the process of jihadist radicalization that can have various results, including the recruitment of foreign fighters who leave their country to join ISIS. These recent trends bring our attention in particular to the use of Twitter in spreading extremist messages specifically to reach a European target and on the ways to effectively fight against this phenomenon. This paper mainly aims to present a methodology and an operative tool for understanding terrorist group recruitment discourse strategy in order to put into place a counter propaganda campaign. After determining some criteria and indicators representing strategic keys in terrorist online recruitment, this study develops an IT tool to analyze a large amount of social media data. This IT tool implements the determined criteria based upon the semantic analysis method.
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