[ecrea] Call for Papers "Digital Media and Political Extremism“

*Call for Papers*

Sally Hohnstein, Dr. Maruta Herding & Michaela Glaser

Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI),

Research Center for Prevention of Right-Wing Extremism and Radicalization

*Edited Volume on: ***

*Digital Media and Political Extremism. *

*State of Knowledge, Challenges and Pedagogical Means*

The Research Center for Prevention of Right-Wing Extremism and 
Radicalization, a research unit at Deutsches Jugendinstitut in Halle 
(Saale), Germany, is about to publish an edited volume on issues around 
digital media and political Extremism (German working title: „Digitale 
Medien und politischer Extremismus. Wissensstand, Herausforderungen und 
Ansatzpunkte für die pädagogische Praxis“). The volume aims at bringing 
together (1) empirical research results on the role and functions of 
digital media for adolescent Extremist affiliation, fascination and 
further radicalisation processes as well as (2) new and creative 
approaches for pedagogical preventative work, and making those insights 
available for professionals and other people concerned. Thematically, 
the collection focuses particularly on the political Extremist phenomena 
of ‘right-wing Extremism’ and ‘Islamist Extremism’.

*Background*

Digital media have been gaining significant relevance for young people´s 
everyday behaviour as well as for persuasive political communication and 
recruitment practices of Extremist groups. These developments issue 
challenges to pedagogical professionals. Both, Right-wing and Islamist 
Extremist collective ideological and social propositions are widespread 
in digital media and therefore easily accessible for everyone. Young 
people could encounter such propositions and deal with them in some form 
or another.

One difficulty that shows up here is that there is actually only little 
empirically based scientific knowledge on the connections between 
digital media on the one hand, and affiliation and radicalisation 
processes on the other. Despite a remarkable increase of the number of 
mainly phenomenon descriptions and theoretical work as well as media 
content analysis studies during the last decade, this fundamental 
knowledge gap still remains. Empirical studies, which are aiming at the 
reconstruction and explanation of the specific functions of digital 
media for individual Extremist fascination, engagement, interaction and 
continuance processes – also with regard to the individuals´ each 
different set of life experiences and predispositions – still seem to be 
rather rare. However, such knowledge is essential for understanding why 
some young people would turn towards Extremist propositions (whereas 
others would not). Again, this perspective of understanding is 
fundamental for the development of promising pedagogical practices on 
issues around digital media and political Extremism.

In addition to that, pedagogical professionals currently appear to be 
uncertain about approaching issues related to digital media and 
political Extremism. In Germany, there are thus far only few pedagogic 
attempts to develop and test specific (online as well as offline) 
approaches that aim at preventing or dampening young people´s 
orientation towards Extremist propositions in virtual environments 
Profound experiences for professionals to rely on are therefore rather 
limited. //

**

*Contributions are welcome to the following themes:*

**

Phenomenon-related contributions present and discuss

§empirical results on the role of digital media for fascination, 
engagement, interaction and continuance processes in the fields of 
Right-Wing Extremism and Islamist Extremism,

§empirical results on the role of digital media for other non-Extremist 
fascination, engagement, interaction and continuance processes (i.e. 
related to fan scenes, amok) that could be usable for explaining similar 
processes related to Right-Wing Extremism and Islamist Extremism.

Besides that we further welcome contributions, which present and discuss

§pedagogical approaches and implementation experiences of work on issues 
related to digital media and political Extremism, either as research 
papers (i.e. based on evaluation results) or experience-based work 
reports. In this subject area both, practitioners and researchers are 
invited to contribute.

*Submission*

Please submit your abstracts of 2,000 signs (including blanks) to 
(hohnstein /at/ dji.de) <mailto:(hohnstein /at/ dji.de)>, (herding /at/ dji.de) 
<mailto:(herding /at/ dji.de)> und (glaser /at/ dji.de) <mailto:(glaser /at/ dji.de)> until 
7^February 7, 2017. You will be notified on acceptance of your paper by 
February 23, 2017.

All contributions shall be handed in by June 30, 2017.

After an editorial review process contributors will have four weeks for 
paper revision.

*The collection shall be published in the end of 2017.*

Research papers can include a research question, theses, information on 
data and methods and the main (or expected) findings. Work-in-progress 
papers (also from PhD students and emerging researchers) are equally 
welcome as are those on results from finished research projects.

Papers on professional practice knowledge can include a short outline of 
the basic assumptions underlying the work, a brief project sketch as 
well as an illustrative presentation of work experiences (including 
reflections on successes, problems and limits).

Papers can be submitted in English or German language. A single 
contribution should not exceed a total of 40,000 signs (including 
blanks) including references and footnotes.

*We are looking forward for your submission!*

Sally Hohnstein, Dr. Maruta Herding und Michaela Glaser

For further information on the /Research Center for Prevention of 
Right-Wing Extremism and Radicalization/ and /Deutsches Jugendinstitut/ 
please visit:

www.dji.de/AFS <http://www.dji.de/AFS>


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