Online radicalization to violence

... Terrorists’ use of the Internet basically mirrors the fact that everybody is using the Internet much more. In the wake of the Boston attack, we heard a lot of discussion of online radicalization, almost as if it is a new and unique phenomena. But I should ... ... or otherwise) in moving an individual toward the embrace of violence. In my own research on “homegrown” jihadist terrorism in the West, I’ve found that ideology is sometimes the central factor in an individual’s radicalization,...