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Drumbeat - New Media and the Radicalization and Militarization of Young People (Hardcover)
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Drumbeat - New Media and the Radicalization and Militarization of Young People (Hardcover)
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As the twenty-first century unfolds society is confronted with the
normalization of warfare and political violence and their growing
allure for the young. Current global political events highlight the
extent to which young people have become the target of both State
and non-State actors in the prosecution of war and terror. The
conduct of what we can refer to as "social war" has increasingly
come to target the young through media (social media, the internet
and video games) and more directly through acts of violence (the
massacre of children, the reliance on child soldiers, and the use
of children in martyrdom operations) as legitimate forms of
conduct. The appropriation of the young as political and military
materials through the processes of both radicalization and
militarization warrants close examination. Drumbeat examines these
issues within the context of the ongoing process of militarization
and the establishment of a state of perpetual warfare. The book
distinguishes between radicalization, which refers to the
application of propaganda and ideological methods by non-State
agents, and militarization, which refers to the application of
propaganda and ideological methods by State agents in order to
effectively prosecute war. The focus of this book will be an
examination of the mechanisms through which forms of media and
other digital and web-based artefacts - social media, video and
video games - assist in the militarization and radicalization of
the young. There is a growing body of evidence which points to the
effectiveness of various forms of media in both the recruitment of
young people and the promotion of ideological frames. For example,
non-State actors (extremist religious groups and the Alt-Right)
have been highly effective in appropriating new media to project
their propaganda messages and their appeal to young people. The
book also argues that militarization has become a powerful societal
force, which is re-configuring the daily conduct of life in the
West. Just as radicalization seeks to prepare the young for the
conduct of war, militarization also functions to position the
broader society for war. This is a new form of the "civilizing
process" to which Norbert Elias referred. In this context new media
provides the conduits through which this process is legitimized,
celebrated and promulgated.
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