Youth's Digital Skills and Their Vulnerability Towards Online Radicalism

DOI

10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.19How to use a DOI?

Keywords

youth, digital skills, digital natives, terrorism, online radicalism

Abstract

Terrorist use of the Internet is widely viewed as one of the most important security issues facing governments today. They are able to spread online propaganda and radicalism, in which youth is one of the most potential targets. On the other hand, youth, which commonly categorized as digital natives, are frequently assumed as the generation who is tech-savvy and master the digital skills. This paper will begin by discussing the competences needed by youth in this digital era so that they able to do counterterrorism. Then, it will examine the correlation between digital skills and the vulnerability regarding radicalism that comes with the affordances of Internet. This paper found that contrary to the popular expectations, youth have limited digital skills and have low coping capacities to combat online radicalism. Digital literacy from older generation is crucially needed to guide them dealing with this issue.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Marhaeni Wijayanti
AU  - Amalia Muthmainah
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Youth's Digital Skills and Their Vulnerability Towards Online Radicalism
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs (IcoCSPA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 72
EP  - 74
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.19
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