Al Mokdad, Dalia
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019)
Social media has played a key role in the rise of extremism. Extremists took
advantage of these open and free platforms to promote their propaganda. At the same
time, this was an opportunity for governments, religious institutions and civil society
to create counter extremism narrative. Based on the framing theory, this study examines
the way in which Sawab, Al-Azhar Observatory, and Taadudiya Facebook pages
present their narratives, with the aim of developing characteristics for each of the
narratives. This study adopts a quantitative research methodology through the content
analysis of ...