Funded by the Minerva Research Initiative—the social science research arm of the Department of Defense—Brian Ekdale, associate professor in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and his co-investigators will use qualitative, quantitative, and computational research methodologies to investigate the psychological attributes that make a person vulnerable to radicalization and how U.S. users of various social media respond to personalization and radical content. Ultimately, the group plans to develop techniques for predicting which online communities are likely to adopt extremist ideologies.
Thursday, October 29, 2020