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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">25712</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1438-2021-23-1-78-96</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>YOUTH IN POLITICS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>МОЛОДЕЖЬ В ОНЛАЙН-ПОЛИТИКЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Youth as an Object of Online Extremist Propaganda: The Case of the IS</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Молодежь как объект экстремистской пропаганды в интернет-пространстве: на примере «Исламского государства»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Abalian</surname><given-names>Anna Igorevna</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Абалян</surname><given-names>Анна Игоревна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат политических наук, доцент кафедры этнополитологии факультета политологии</p></bio><email>a.abalyan@spbu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Bijan</surname><given-names>Aref</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бижан</surname><given-names>Ареф</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Postgraduate Student in Political Science and Area Studies, Department of Political Studies</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>аспирант кафедры этнополитологии факультета политологии</p></bio><email>st082323@student.spbu.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Saint Petersburg State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-03-18" publication-format="electronic"><day>18</day><month>03</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Youth and Politics</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Молодежь и политика</issue-title><fpage>78</fpage><lpage>96</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-02-19"><day>19</day><month>02</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Abalian A.I., Bijan A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Абалян А.И., Бижан А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Abalian A.I., Bijan A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Абалян А.И., Бижан А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/25712">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/25712</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>A youth audience is the most vulnerable part of society as an object of influence of radical ideas. The authors argue that the most efficient tool of involving young people of different origin and confessional affiliation into the extremist activity on the present stage is social networks. Despite the fact that the practice of using communication networks in the Internet space by terrorist organizations have existed before, it was the information policy of the ISIS (and later IS) that was characterized by the greatest effectiveness, due to the creation of an integrated media structure, which consisted of numerous foundations and agencies (“Al Furqan”, “Aynad”, “Itisaam”, “Al-Hayat”, etc.), allowing them to spread their extremist religious and ideological doctrine on a global scale. The use of the widest range of high-quality media products in Internet media and social networks has expanded the organization’s area of influence by attracting supporters not only from the Middle East region, but also from European countries and the Russian Federation. The case-study of the mechanisms for attracting European youth through social networks, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc., to extremist activities under the auspices of the IS is held. In conclusion, the prospects for the influence of IS propaganda in social networks after the defeat of a terrorist organization in 2018 are assessed. As a methodological basis of the research, aspect and activity approaches, as well as analytical, statistical methods and the method of content analysis are used.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Молодежь является наиболее уязвимой частью общества в качестве объекта воздействия радикальных идей. Авторы статьи утверждают, что самым эффективным методом распространения экстремистских идей в молодежной среде на современном этапе, служат социальные сети. Несмотря на то, что практика использования коммуникационных сетей в интернет-пространстве террористическими организациями существовала и ранее, именно информационная политика ИГИЛ (и позднее ИГ) характеризовалась наибольшей результативностью, за счет создания комплексной медийной структуры, состоявшей из многочисленных фондов и агентств («Аль-Фуркан», «Айнад», «Итисаам», «Аль-Хайат» и др.), позволив распространять их экстремистскую религиозно-идеологическую доктрину в мировом масштабе. Использование широчайшего спектра высококачественной медиапродукции в интернет-СМИ и социальных сетях увеличило ареал влияния организации путем привлечения сторонников не только из ближневосточного региона, но в том числе и из европейских стран. В данной статье выявляются механизмы привлечения европейской молодежи через социальные сети, такие как Twitter, Facebook и др. к экстремистской деятельности под эгидой ИГ. В заключении оцениваются перспективы влияния пропаганды ИГ в социальных сетях после разгрома террористической организации в 2018 г. В качестве методологической базы исследования выступают аспектный и деятельностный подходы, а также аналитический, статистический методы и метод контент-анализа.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>terrorism</kwd><kwd>extremism</kwd><kwd>Islamic State</kwd><kwd>social networks</kwd><kwd>youth</kwd><kwd>European countries</kwd><kwd>propaganda</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>терроризм</kwd><kwd>экстремизм</kwd><kwd>Исламское Государство</kwd><kwd>молодежь</kwd><kwd>социальные сети</kwd><kwd>европейские страны</kwd><kwd>пропаганда</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено при поддержке гранта РФФИ № 20-011-31077 «Этнополитические конфликты в современном мире: постсоветский контекст» 2020 г.</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">This research was carried out within the framework of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) No. 20-011-31077 “Ethnopolitical conflicts in the modern world: the post-Soviet context” 2020.</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Awan, I. 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