Synopses & Reviews
Global Terrorism and New Media carefully examines the content of terrorist websites and extremist television programming to provide a comprehensive look at how terrorist groups use new media today.
Based partly on a content analysis of discussion boards and forums, the authors share their findings on how terrorism 1.0 is migrating to 2.0 where the interactive nature of new media is used to build virtual organization and community. Although the creative use of social networking tools such as Facebook may advance the reach of terrorist groups, the impact of their use of new media remains uncertain. The book pays particular attention to terrorist media efforts directed at women and children, which are evidence of the long-term strategy that some terrorist organizations have adopted, and the relationship between terrorists? media presence and actual terrorist activity. This volume also looks at the future of terrorism online and analyzes lessons learned from counterterrorism strategies.
This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, media and communication studies, security studies and political science.
Synopsis
This book examines the content of terrorist websites and television channels, and includes images taken from these sources, before offering advice about a strategy for fighting back using the same media.
Synopsis
The arsenal of terrorist groups includes not just Kalashnikovs and dynamite vests, but also high-tech media weapons that they use to recruit, train, fundraise, and proselytize.
New Media and Terrorism examines the content of terrorist websites and television channels, and includes images taken from these sources. It looks at terrorism 2.0, which relies on the interactive nature of new media to build virtual organizations. The book pays particular attention to the insidious terrorist media effort directed at children, which is evidence of the long-term strategy that some terrorist organizations have adopted, and the relationship between terrorists' media presence and actual terrorist activity. The book also includes a provocative chapter offering advice about a strategy for fighting back by using the same media that terrorists rely on.
Defeating terrorism means going beyond Al Qaeda and using the media weapons that terrorists wield so effectively; this book explains how.
This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, media and communication studies, security studies and political science.