Reflecting this trajectory of development, over the past five years or so there has been a growing literature using social media data to illuminate different facets of what occurs in the post-violence moment. For example, Randall Collins in…[Figure: GNET logo]
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Randall Collins
sociologist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Randall Collins appears in the course readings as a sociologist whose theoretical framework on interaction rituals and violence has been adapted for analyzing post-conflict dynamics through social media data. His work seems to enable scholars studying extremism and technology to understand the micro-social mechanisms underlying collective violence and radicalization in digital networks. The citation is fragmentary, suggesting Collins provides conceptual scaffolding for understanding how violence unfolds as a social process rather than purely as ideology or individual psychology.
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