Entertainment-Education Versus Extremism: Examining Parasocial Interaction among Arab Viewers of Anti-ISIS TV Drama

Radicalization amongst youth is a challenge facing the Arab world. Recent reports indicate that over 20,000 Arab fighters traveled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria and another 5-15 percent of millennials across seven Arab countries consider some violent extremist groups to be on the right path. In res...

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Main Author: Kareem El Damanhoury
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Daniel Koehler 2020-09-01
Series:Journal for Deradicalization
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Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/jd/index.php/jd/article/view/383