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ISICD · Exploring the identity construction of IS members through linguistic markers in online discourse

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Exploring the identity construction of IS members through linguistic markers in online discourse

ISICD has explored the discourse of the Islamic State (IS) as well as other Islamic extremist groups and acheived the main aim of contributing to a system of detecting, tracking and monitoring radicalization on the Internet. Specifically, the findings from the ISCID project provide a much-needed comprehensive account of the linguistic markers that characterize extremist online identity, as manifested through the different personae members construe when communicating with their target audiences. The contribution is methodological, theoretical and topical, having the potential to influence research in other non-linguistic academic fields, and raise awareness amongst other public bodies such as police and border force control as well as the wider public. The overall aim of ISICD has been to explore the discursive representation and identity construction of IS groups online through a set of four specific objectives (O): O1 how extremism is identified within language use through quantitative analysis of n-grams, word sketches and collocations; O2 how extremism is identified through qualitative structural patterns (i.e transitivity and appraisal frameworks). O3 how the use of these linguistic traits explains rhetoric and persuasive strategies used by IS; O4 what these findings tell us about how IS ideology is filtered through various discursive practices. An additional line of research within the project is the analysis of police interviews with community members known to individuals convicted of terrorism. This forms part of a collaboration with members of “Nutcracker: System for the detection, tracking, monitoring and analysis of terrorist discourse on the Internet” (FFI2016-79748-R), a project funded by MINECO and directed by Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio and Juan Luis Castro Peña from the University of Granada. The research is relevant in a number of academic disciplines as well as day-to-day contexts. Radicalisation, for example, is at the extreme end of what is a highly complex cline of influence and manipulation of one’s ideology or belief system, and as the use of online communication (social media, vlogging, live streams, news comments and threads, etc.) becomes more pervasive, we become more exposed to the use of opinionated language, fake news, and propaganda in a range of domains and text communities. The research project has established original and quantitative methodologies for analyzing online communication, with the intention of better understanding the ways in which ideology is articulated and distributed in the 21st century and how this can lead to radicalization in online communities.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The proposed research (Islamic State identity construction through discourse or ISICD) will explore the discourse of the Islamic State (IS) with the aim of contributing to a system of detecting, tracking, monitoring and studying such discourse in the Internet. As a tool, language allows us to establish our relationship with people discursively, to represent and distort reality, and to convince those with who we communicate to act in a certain way. This makes it a valuable resource for exploring larger motives and ideologies that are not explicit at the level of the text itself. The growing popularity of IS and its global influence depends on the ability of its members to communicate and share information online. As a consequence, its social identity as a political and religious group is established through online language in particular. The research will be carried out with a triangulation methodology, incorporating corpus linguistic methods with a discourse analysis frameworkand systemic functional linguistics, to determine four specific objectives (O): O1 how extremism is identified within language use through quantitative linguistic markers such as n-grams and collocations; O2 how extremism is identified through qualitative structural patterns such as transitivity, modality and appraisal; O3 how the use of these linguistic traits explains rhetoric and persuasive strategies used by IS; O4 what these findings tell us about how IS ideology is represented discursively. The findings from this research will provide a much-needed comprehensive account of the linguistic markers that characterise online identity of IS members. The project will develop original quantitative methodologies which will be transferrable to other contexts in which ideology is constructed in online communities. The findings will also have a wider relevance in areas such as sociology, the media, anti-terrorism research, politics and border control.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA · GranadaКоординаторИспания