TY  - BOOK
AU  - EBNER Julia
AU  - KAVANAGH Christopher
AU  - WHITEHOUSE Harvey
TI  - Measuring socio-psychological drivers of extreme violence in online terrorist manifestos: : an alternative linguistic risk assessment model
PY  - 2024///
KW  - TERRORIST MANIFESTO
KW  - VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT
N2  - This paper develops a novel method of assessing the risk that online users will engage in acts of violent extremism based on linguistic markers detectable in terrorist manifestos. A comparative NLP analysis was carried out across fifteen manifestos on a scale from violent terrorist to non-violent politically moderate. We used a dictionary approach to measure the statistical significance of narratives previously identified in terrorism literature in predicting violence. The NLP analysis confirmed our research hypothesis, finding that the linguistic markers of identity fusion (an extreme form of group alignment whereby personal and group identities become functionally equivalent), dehumanising language towards the out-group and violence condoning norms were statistically significantly higher in manifestos of authors who engaged in acts of violent extremism
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18335330.2023.2246982
ER  -