Online radicalization to violence

... frightening. The Boston attack is a recent terrifying example of this. What pushes one to start radicalizing online? 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 point out that psychological studies that have looked at online communication, and relationships that are built online, concluded that relationships often deepen faster ...