ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Media Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1537492
This article is part of the Research TopicExtremism and GamesView all 5 articles
Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism Digitally: Trialing a New Gender-Based Approach Among Gamers
Provisionally accepted
Galen Lamphere-Englund1*
Mike Wilson2
Jessica White1*Claudia Wallner1
Rachel Kowert1Nitchakarn Kaewbuadee2
Petra Regeni1
Alex Bradley Newhouse3- 1Royal United Services Institute, London, United Kingdom
- 2LoveFrankie, Bangkok, Thailand
- 3University of Colorado System, Boulder, Colorado, United States
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The rise of online gaming as a dominant social and entertainment space has increasingly attracted attention as a potential vector for radicalization to violent extremism. However, given the challenges of completely eradicating harmful content from these vast community spaces, we also need to focus on strengthening the resilience of individuals active there. To effectively build that resilience, we must first define and understand the current state of resilience among gamers, then identify the factors that contribute to it. This article seeks to do that by building upon the mostly offline-focused Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism framework to explore its applicability in the digital environment and specifically within the highly gendered parameters of gaming spaces and experiences. This article builds upon the wider data collection and findings of a project exploring socialization in gaming spaces with a nexus to radicalization through a gender lens.
Keywords: Gaming, resilience, Community, Violent extremism, gender
Received: 01 Dec 2024; Accepted: 18 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lamphere-Englund, Wilson, White, Wallner, Kowert, Kaewbuadee, Regeni and Newhouse. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Galen Lamphere-Englund, Royal United Services Institute, London, United Kingdom
Jessica White, Royal United Services Institute, London, United Kingdom
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