Stern Interviewed by CNN on Radicalization
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on how the internet and social media platforms are being used to radicalize young men.
Stern was quoted in a March 17, 2019 story by CNN Business entitled “The Internet is Radicalizing White Men. Big Tech Could be Doing More.”
From the text of the article:
“They’re picking up an ideology that helps them justify their rage, their disappointment, and it’s something available,” Jessica Stern, a research professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and the co-author of “ISIS: The State of Terror,” told CNN Business Friday. “Terrorism runs in fads. We noticed that people were picking up the ISIS ideology who weren’t even Muslim, they were converting to Islam. The ISIS ideology was an attractive way for some of these men to express their rage and disappointment. This is another ideology that is becoming very popular, it’s another fad.”
Stern has held fellowships awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Erik Erikson Institute, and the MacArthur Foundation. She was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Stern taught as a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1999-2015. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she worked in government, serving on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Stern has nearly completed her training as an Advanced Academic Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. Learn more about her here.