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@article{173699,
        author = {Aditya Arya and Tanmayi S. Vaste},
        title = {A Comparative Analysis of Online Radicalization Among Youth in India},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1121-1126},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=173699},
        abstract = {Radicalization of college students, specifically young boys and girls, is a matter of concern for many societies and nations today. The present research was taken up to explore the sources of radicalization among college students and identify the factors that are responsible for religious radicalization among College students.
A questionnaire was developed to collect data from the college students. The questionnaire contained questions on three domains 1. Social media 2. Behaviour-based 3. Attitude based. The questionnaire was circulated through Google Forms. Forty participants responded to the Google form and data was collected. Data was analyzed using descriptive, non-parametric statistics, and content analysis. Results revealed no gender difference in the propensity of the College students to engage in violent acts in the name of religion, nor did the education qualification of the participants, but there can be a chance that individuals who are well educated can engage in the violent act. Belief in the superiority of one's religion was also found to increase the chances of an individual participating in religious violence.
Furthermore, participants from lower socioeconomic status (SES) had a higher chance of participating in violent acts in the name of religion and a higher chance to participate if their peers were doing so. The scope of the study suggests that there can be further studies done in terms of the changing factors of the radicalizations, like the barter system in the radicalization.},
        keywords = {Online Radicalization, Radicalization, Polarization, Extremism, Ideology, Social Media.},
        month = {March},
        }