Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses

ISBN-13: 9780367858650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Maura Conway; Stuart MacDonald

Opis

Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State’s online activity at the peak of its "golden age" between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon.

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Introduction: Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses 2014-2017 Maura Conway and Stuart Macdonald 1. Mujahideen Mobilization: Examining the Evolution of the Global Jihadist Movement’s Communicative Action Repertoire Maxime Bérubé and Benoit Dupont 2. Competition and Innovation in a Hostile Environment: How Jabhat Al-Nusra and Islamic State Moved to Twitter in 2013-2014 Gunnar J. Weimann 3. A Dialectical Approach to Online Propaganda: Australia’s United Patriots Front, Right-Wing Politics, and Islamic State Imogen Richards 4. Grading the Quality of ISIS Videos: A Metric for Assessing the Technical Sophistication of Digital Video Propaganda Mark D. Robinson and Cori E. Dauber 5. Women’s Radicalization to Religious Terrorism: An Examination of ISIS Cases in the United States Lauren R. Shapiro and Marie-Helen Maras 6. “The Lions of Tomorrow”: A News Value Analysis of Child Images in Jihadi Magazines Amy-Louise Watkin and Seán Looney 7. Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj Lakhani, Jeremy Reffin, Andrew Robertson, and David Weir 8. Informal Countermessaging: The Potential and Perils of Informal Online Countermessaging Benjamin J. Lee 9. Social Media and (Counter) Terrorist Finance: A Fund-Raising and Disruption Tool Tom Keatinge and Florence Keen 10. A Storm on the Horizon? “Twister” and the Implications of the Blockchain and Peer-to-Peer Social Networks for Online Violent Extremism Gareth Mott