Religion and the internet. 'Radicalisation In The Digital Age', by Marc Weitzmann. It is easier than you might think for an extremist to radicalise a stranger online — to persuade that person to marry them, say, or to join their army in a foreign land; because when we are online we tend to think of our online personae as being not quite real; we take chances, have adventures, with our online personae, and our real-world personae get entailed. “Future converts who begin by searching for ‘real’ Muslims online, in the privacy of their bedrooms, always meet people in the flesh at some point.” Further information.
25 March 2019
Granta
Religion and the internet. 'Radicalisation In The Digital Age', by Marc Weitzmann. It is easier than you might think for an extremist to radicalise a stranger online — to persuade that person to marry them, say, or to join their army in a foreign land; because when we are online we tend to think of our online personae as being not quite real; we take chances, have adventures, with our online personae, and our real-world personae get entailed. “Future converts who begin by searching for ‘real’ Muslims online, in the privacy of their bedrooms, always meet people in the flesh at some point.” Further information.