Dear All, We, at the Centre for Internet and Society, are currently working on a Scouting project on Digital Natives with a Cause, exploring the potentials and possibilities of social transformation and political participation in the realm of youth and technology. The project is interested in mapping the scholarship, policy and legislation in this area to look at what are the knowledge gaps and which spaces need more research and intervention. In the process of documenting the different ways in which the youth relate to digital technologies, we are also examining what constitutes a Digital Native identity and what are the ways in which the youth is changing the landscape of politics and social engagement. As a part of this study, there is one section that we are grappling with on youth and hatred. The general imagination of a digital native is that of a secular, pro-left, 'enlightened' young person who is in the pursuit of those much heralded Internet Ideals of free speech, justice, inclusion etc. However, we have gotten hints from various studies, that a lot of right-wing, fundamentalist, and violent groups around the world are also using the same tools and technologies to create the 'other' digital native identity which is not focussed upon in regular discourse. I was wondering if anybody in this list could specifically point me towards documented cases, anecdotes or scholarly work done on this particular phenomenon of the youth being mobilised by religious/political/cultural groups towards acts of violence (sometimes dubbed as terrorism), hatred, upholding of fundamentalist ideologies, discrimination et al. Any pointers would be well appreciated. If there is somebody who is working in this area, could you please introduce me to them, because I would like to include their work as a part of this scouting project and hopefully also look at some long term collaborations in the future. Thanks for your time Nishant -- Nishant Shah Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow in Shanghai, 2008-09 # 00-86-21-66130376