Technologies of remote radicalization: Once again on personally oriented recruitment on the Internet

The article raises the issue of an in-depth study of the methods of remote recruitment of adherents of destructive communities of radical orientation among young people visiting social media. The article describes the predictors of the social context that lead to an increase in tension and depression, the technologization of content promotion processes based on the principle of a recommendation base and associative verbal connections. In these conditions, the authors find it particularly relevant to study specific verbal and non-verbal remote involvement in virtual destructive communities and radicalization of social network users, which became the goal of the study. It is also important to analyze the results of existing scientific studies on the methods of influencing consciousness for the purpose of radi-calization, to consider these techniques in the socio-cultural context, which allows us to clarify the psychological profile of the vulnerability of an individual susceptible to radical recruitment. The material for the study was the content for 2020-2024, distributed within an open terrorist community on the VKontakte social network. In total, more than 1,500 publications of the group were analyzed. The following methods were used: analysis of theoretical literature, analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, logical and semantic analysis, elements of component analysis, discourse analysis, intent analysis. The community content was considered as a holistic information block that solved certain problems in stages. It was concluded that individual posts and articles published in the group were logically and consistently placed in the community and were aimed at implementing the function set by the publishers, which was generally aimed at influencing the user's consciousness. The successive stages of involving the subject in a new destructive ideology were identified and described - the stage of inciting interest and evaluation, the stage of personal selection, the stage of rebuilding, the stage of forming a new complex identity, the stage of legalizing and inciting violence. The basis for involvement is the concentric deepening of the dichotomy "we" - "they", the romanticization of criminal meanings, illogicality, poeticization and metaphoricality. As a result, the authors came to the conclusion that after a certain time, at the level of semantics of new, introduced concepts, three types of identities - criminal, religious and terrorist - are consolidated, and an emotional-volitional readiness for destructive actions is formed. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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