Tracking down the Candy Crush Terrorist: the fragile relation between gaming motives and radical attitudes.

ABSTRACT: The gaming ecosystem is increasingly observed with the concern that it could pose a threat to public safety, and research accumulates evidence for blatant extremism in the surrounding online space of games. Currently, a connection between gaming and extremism can be established through identity related processes, e.g., gaming-related radicalization elements, distal to gaming itself, such as gaming communities and culture. However, this also raises the question of what the precise function of proximal gaming factors, such as gameplay, mechanics, stories, or game-play motivations, is in the relationship between gaming and extremism. This article aims to shed light on the relation of gaming and extremism by identifying individual profiles of videogame playing based on gameplay motivations and

SUBMITTER: Greipl S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12558929 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature