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Weaponized Words
Strengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized Words applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media, YouTube, websites, and message boards to name but a few. Terrorists deploy a range of communication methods and harness reliable communication theories to create strategic messages that persuade peaceful individuals to join their groups and engage in violence. While explaining how they accomplish this, the book lays out a blueprint for developing counter-messages perfectly designed to conquer such violent extremism and terrorism. Using this basis in persuasion theory, a socio-scientific approach is generated to fight terrorist propaganda and the damage it causes.
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304 pages, Paperback
Published April 16, 2020
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October 25, 2020
Outstanding book! Prof. Braddock takes us through a refreshing tour of the radicalized psyche, keeping us at the edge of our seats with comprehensive reviews of literature and great storytelling of infamous radicalization episodes.
Albeit this book reflects the psychological scientific literature at its latest advances, the friendly tone turns the book from an academic tome to a read approachable by all audiences.
As a psychologist, I am very impressed by the depth and comprehensiveness of this book - I believe it does justice to the field as a whole while proposing new avenues on how to combat radicalisation. I personally enjoyed the acknowledgement throughout the book of the inherent dynamism of the radicalization/counter-radicalization relationship, i.e. how new radicalization processes can be curtailed by the creation of new counter-radicalization techniques: this dynamism is ever present but seldom recognized in the literature, and it makes this book a great thinking guide on how to approach the topic.
The reader comes away from this book with a deep sense of hope in these new techniques, and a growth mindset on how to deal with this pressing issue.
Albeit this book reflects the psychological scientific literature at its latest advances, the friendly tone turns the book from an academic tome to a read approachable by all audiences.
As a psychologist, I am very impressed by the depth and comprehensiveness of this book - I believe it does justice to the field as a whole while proposing new avenues on how to combat radicalisation. I personally enjoyed the acknowledgement throughout the book of the inherent dynamism of the radicalization/counter-radicalization relationship, i.e. how new radicalization processes can be curtailed by the creation of new counter-radicalization techniques: this dynamism is ever present but seldom recognized in the literature, and it makes this book a great thinking guide on how to approach the topic.
The reader comes away from this book with a deep sense of hope in these new techniques, and a growth mindset on how to deal with this pressing issue.
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