Consciousness Management by Extremist Organizations with the Means of Internet Communication
Research Article
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Lukichev P.N., Ali A.A. Consciousness Management by Extremist Organizations with the Means of Internet Communication. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2022. Vol. 11. No. 2. P. 89-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2022.2.7 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Oblective of the study is to determine how extremist organizations manage the consciousness of individuals they recruit into their activities using mass communication media.
The methodological basis of the research consists of a systematic methodological approach used to analyze the cognitive-ideological matrices of individual consciousness, an information and communication methodological approach that allows us to consider the process of loosening and replacing nuclear ideologies of political consciousness with activated borderline ideologies that were previously in a de-actualized state, a subjective-personal methodological approach applied to reveal the process of the impact of extremist propaganda in recruiting new members.
Research results are presented by the conclusion about the role of activation of borderline ideologies by extremist propaganda in the process of reformatting the political consciousness of the individual, the conclusion about the role of Internet communication in the management of extremist organizations by the consciousness of social individuals, the conclusion about the radicalization of the political consciousness of the individual under the influence of extremist propaganda by means of Internet communication and its involvement in extremist and terrorist activities.
Prospects of the study unfold in the form of an analysis of the activities of specific extremist organizations, the development of methods to counter the propaganda of extremism and terrorism, the rehabilitation of a person subjected to the propaganda of extremism.
Keywords:
radicalization, extremism, Internet communication, cognitive-ideological matrices, nuclear, adjacent, peripheral, borderline ideologies
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Konstantinov, M. S. (2018). Cognitive-ideological matrices. Development policy, state and world order: Proceedings of the VIII All-Russian congress of political scientists, Moscow, December 6–8, 2018. In O. V. Gaman-Golutvina, L. V. Smorgunov, L. N. Timofeeva (Eds.). Moscow: Aspekt-Press Publ. (In Russian).
Lukichev, P. N. (2016). Ideologems of right-wing radicalism in the public consciousness of university students of the Rostov Region. Gumanitarij Yuga Rossii, 6, 80–91. (In Russian).
Lukichev, P. N. (2018). Borderline ideologies of right-wing radicalism in the student environment of the Rostov Region (based on the materials of a sociological study). Obzor. NCPTI, 1 (12), 34–49. (In Russian).
Sageman, M. (2008). Network structures of terrorism. Moscow: Ideya-Press Publ. (In Russian).
Yurchak, A. V. (2018). The concept and essence of extremism. Voprosy nauki i obrazovaniya,17 (29), 56–57. (In Russian).
Conway M. (2017). Determining the role of the internet in violent extremism and terrorism: six suggestions for progressing research. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1 (40), 77–98.
Conway, M. (2006). Terrorists’ use of the Internet. Information & Security, 19, 9–30.
Chris Hale, W. (2012). Extremism on the World wide web: A research review. Criminal Justice Studies, 25, 343–356.
Della Porta, D. (1992). Political Socialization in left-wing underground organizations: biographies of Italian and German militants. International Social Movement Research, 4, 259–290.
Della Porta, D. (1998). Recruitment process in clandestine political organizations: Italian left-wing terrorism. International Social Movement Research, 1, 155–169.
Hoffman, B. (2008). The myth of grass-roots terrorism. Why Osama bin Laden still matters. Foreign Affairs, 87, 133–138.
Iannakkone, L. R., Berman, E. (2008). Religion, economics. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. S. N. Durlauf, L. E. Blume (Eds.), 7.
Lipset, S. M. (1960). Political Man. Garden City. N.Y.: Doubleday.
Lukichev, P. N. (2018). Boundary ideologemes of the right-wing radicalism in the student's environment of higher education institutions in the South of Russia (on the example of the Rostov Region). Scientific Almanac of the Black Sea Countries, 16, 4, 20–31.

Article
Received: 26.11.2021
Accepted: 26.05.2022
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Lukichev, P. N., & Ali, A. A. (2022). Consciousness Management by Extremist Organizations with the Means of Internet Communication. Humanities of the South of Russia, 11(2), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2022.2.7
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY