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> stochastic terrorism appears to be the academic way of saying “inciting mob violence” Do you have an example where you think those two concepts could be used
by fwn 4y ago
> stochastic terrorism appears to be the academic way of saying “inciting mob violence”
Do you have an example where you think those two concepts could be used interchangeably in academia?
I weren't able to find one and I don't think those terms describe similar ideas. Mob dynamics might be about scale in some form, but they are usually not about what we would commonly refer to as terrorism.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoThe OP article refers to the following research: “As described by leading scholars, stochastic terrorism involves ‘the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable’ (Hamm and Spaaij, 2017)” maybe inciting “distributed mob violence” would be a better way to translate it for laymen.