Stratagems and heuristics in the recruitment of children into communities of hate: the fabric of our future nightmares

• Autores: Michael Waltman
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 69, nº 1 (OTOÑO), 2003, págs. 22-36
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this work is to examine the techniques used by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to recruit children to their organization through their "just for Kids" Web site. For reasns described in the present work, this site is significant and hightly accesible to children. The theoretical lens developed for this research was dereved from Whillock's (1995) analysis of the hate stratagem (a technique used to influence throught trickery) and the literature on persuasive heuristics (persuasive cues that enhane the likelihood children will process the persuasive message uncritically). It is concluded that reliance climate for the operation of hate appeals. The article discusses the implications this work has for our understanding of the hate stratagem, antiracist discourse, communicative interventions, and critical analyses of racist discourse