Techno-radicalism; an Account of Radicalism in the Technology Era

IF 0.2 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.4018/ijcwt.297858
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Today there is fairly rich literature to study how radical groups take advantage of technology to realize their goals. Something, however, is missing in such discussions as to how technology might affect the subjectivity of extremists. Technology, in the most of such inquiries, is taken to be merely a passive tool without any inherent bias. This instrumentalist approach to technology, however, turns out to be problematic. The contemporary studies of technology may provide us, as it will be argued, with insights to understand how technology might incline civilians towards radicalization. Two frameworks of postphenomenology and Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) will be the primary focus here to outline a schema of the impacts of technology on radicalization of minds. Although technology, with all its variety, is the general concern of the article, it will narrow the discussion down to social media platforms to make the point. It will be then suggested to ascribe an active role to technology in radicalism scholarship, thereby drawing attentions to the process of designing technologies.
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Techno-radicalism;论科技时代的激进主义
今天有相当丰富的文献研究激进组织如何利用技术来实现他们的目标。然而,关于技术如何影响极端分子主体性的讨论中缺少了一些东西。在大多数这样的调查中,技术被认为仅仅是一种被动的工具,没有任何固有的偏见。然而,这种工具主义的技术方法是有问题的。当代技术研究可能会为我们提供一些见解,让我们理解技术是如何使平民倾向于激进化的。后现象学和行动者网络理论(ANT)这两个框架将是本文的主要重点,以概述技术对思想激进化的影响。尽管这篇文章关注的是各种各样的科技,但它将把讨论范围缩小到社交媒体平台上,以阐明这一点。然后建议在激进主义学术中赋予技术积极的作用,从而引起人们对设计技术过程的关注。
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