[Commlist] CFP: ICA 2025 Preconference: “Social Media Radicalization: Definitions, Theories, Methods”

CFP: ICA 2025 Preconference: “Social Media Radicalization: Definitions, 
Theories, Methods”

The ways we talk about “radicalization” have changed significantly in 
recent years. Much of the foundational literature on radicalization 
equates it with violent terrorism (Borum, 2012; Kundnani, 2012; Marwick, 
Clancy, & Furl, 2022; Meleagrou-Hitchens & Kaderbhai, 2016); yet recent 
research and popular discourse is more closely related to theories about 
partisanship, polarization, and extremist beliefs (Almagro, 2023; Biddle 
et al., 2024; Dalgaard-Nielsen, 2012; Roose, 2019; Tufekci, 2018). This 
preconference at the 2025 International Communication Association (ICA) 
annual conference aims to bring together scholars of radicalization and 
social media to 1) interrogate conceptualizations of radicalization on 
social media, 2) diversify perspectives of radicalization online, 3) 
highlight work that focuses on more “mundane” and “everyday” forms of 
radicalization online, and 4) consider radicalization as an attitudinal 
or perceptual variable rather than solely an outcome.

The preconference is open to both conceptual and empirical submissions. 
Topics may include:

  * How to define and operationalize radicalization online
  * Hyper-partisanship and polarization as forms of radicalization online
  * Misinformation and disinformation and radicalization
  * Methodologies for studying radicalization online and overcoming
    difficulties in sampling from “radical” populations
  * Intersectionality, social media, and radicalization
  * Perspectives on radicalization and social media from the Global South
  * Political economy of social media and radicalization
  * Critical perspectives on the concept of radicalization
  * Deradicalization efforts on and by social media platforms
  * Computational approaches to studying radicalization
  * The communication context and the effects of radicalization on
    social media
  * The interplay between mass media and radicalization on social media

The preconference will take place June 11, 2025 at Metropolitan State 
University of Denver, conveniently less than 1 mile from the ICA 
conference hotel. Extended abstract or full paper submissions are due 
February 1, 2025 at 11:59pm. Questions and submissions should be sent to 
(cp3-info /at/ uiowa.edu) <mailto:(cp3-info /at/ uiowa.edu)>. For more information, 
visit: https://cp3.org.uiowa.edu/ica-2025-preconference 
<https://cp3.org.uiowa.edu/ica-2025-preconference>

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