Destructive content of media communications as a factor of forming terrorist attitudes in educational system

Abstract

Currently, modern social institutions are undergoing active transformation. The transformation of society, especially in educational system, leads to changes in the views of young people, which is reflected in their social behavior. Since young people have an unstable social position in their educational age and labile consciousness, information content received through media communication can cause young people to become inclined to irrational social behavior, including extremist behavior and terrorism. The analysis revealed that media channels allow terrorist organizations to create and promote blogs and discussion forums aimed at spreading terrorist orientations on such sites as Twitter, YouTube, Vkontakte, Instagram, Telegram, which post content that incites violent actions. Analytics in social networks allows us to investigate the "digital traces" of social network participants, which can become an effective technology for identifying terrorist communities in social media and curbing the spread of destructive content, which means combating terrorism.