Analyzing terror campaigns on the internet: Technical sophistication, content richness, and Web interactivity

Qin, Jialun; Zhou, Yilu; Reid, Edna; Lai, Guanpi; Chen, Hsinchun

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.08.012

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“…Terrorism researches dealing with terrorists' uses of website seem to center around two approaches: content analysis of terrorists' web documents (Tsfati and Weimann 2002;Weimann 2004;Denning 2009;Anderson 2003) and explication of terrorists' web technologies in supporting communication, interaction, and presentation (Qin et al 2007).…”

Section: Cyber Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information control and terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai terrorist attack through twitter

2010

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This paper analyzes the role of situational information as an antecedent of terrorists' opportunistic decision making in the volatile and extreme environment of the Mumbai terrorist attack. We especially focus on how Mumbai terrorists monitored and utilized situational information to mount attacks against civilians. Situational information which was broadcast through live media and Twitter contributed to the terrorists' decision making process and, as a result, increased the effectiveness of hand-held weapons to accomplish their terrorist goal. By utilizing a framework drawn from Situation Awareness (SA) theory, this paper aims to (1) analyze the content of Twitter postings of the Mumbai terror incident, (2) expose the vulnerabilities of Twitter as a participatory emergency reporting system in the terrorism context, and (3), based on the content analysis of Twitter postings, we suggest a conceptual framework for analyzing information control in the context of terrorism.

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Section: Cyber Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information control and terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai terrorist attack through twitter

2010

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“…Collectively this qualitative and quantitative research finds a diverse but sophisticated set of materials that often contains vivid imagery, efforts to enhance legitimacy, and many links to like-minded sites. For example, in one of the most comprehensive analyses to date, Qin et al (2007) found that extremist groups use more sophisticated multimedia technology than government websites, particularly when it comes to technologies that allow interaction and feedback.…”

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Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: A case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict

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While terrorism informatics research has examined the technical composition of extremist media, there is less work examining the content and intent behind such media. We propose that the arguments and issues presented in extremist media provide insights into authors' intent, which in turn may provide an evidence-base for detecting and assessing risk. We explore this possibility by applying two quantitative text-analysis methods to 50 online texts that incite violence as a result of the 2008/2009 Israeli military action in Gaza and the West Bank territories. The first method-a content coding system that identifies the occurrence of persuasive devices-revealed a predominance of moral proof arguments within the texts, and evidence for distinguishable 'profiles' of persuasion use across different authors and different group affiliations. The second method-a corpus-linguistic technique that identifies the core concepts and narratives that authors useconfirmed the use of moral proof to create an in-group/outgroup divide, while also demonstrating a movement from general expressions of discontent to more direct audienceorientated expressions of violence as conflict heightened. We conclude that multi-method analyses are a valuable approach to building both an evidence-based understanding of terrorist media use and a valid set of applications within terrorist informatics.

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“…A 2016 study focusing on Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, and combining protest event analysis with online data and network analysis (another technique coming from social movement studies and rarely applied to the radical right until recently, e.g. Qin et al, 2007;Zhou et al, 2005), explained why Pegida mustered low-level support in some countries and failed in others, revealing the pivotal importance of the organizers' agency and their relations with other radical right players (Berntzen and Weisskircher, 2016). Unlike the sui generis case in Dresden, the Pegida label has become a rallying point, appropriated by pre-established radical right activists using it for their own mobilization efforts.…”

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“…The networks that radical right organizations are able to build either at the national or at the international level are considered important for right-wing mobilization (e.g. on networks built online, see Burris et al, 2000;Qin et al, 2007;Zhou et al, 2005). In the USA, for example, the Tea Party has been found to maintain its members through a loose, reticular organization with (albeit uneasy) relations with both the Republican Party and radical right groups (Skocpol and Williamson, 2012).…”

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Radical right-wing movements: Who, when, how and why?

Caiani¹

2017

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This article provides an overview of the existing research on the causes of radical right-wing movements, a topic often neglected in the literature in comparison with the academic attention paid to radical right political parties and elections. It illustrates individual, organizational and contextual explanations for the emergence and mobilization (including violence) of right-wing movements in Europe and beyond, providing comparative empirical studies and data as illustration. The article concludes by discussing possible future directions for right-wing movement research.keywords far right ◆ individual, meso-level and macro-level factors ◆ political mobilization ◆ radical right violence ◆ radical right-wing movements

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Analyzing terror campaigns on the internet: Technical sophistication, content richness, and Web interactivity

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

Information control and terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai terrorist attack through twitter

Information control and terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai terrorist attack through twitter

Analyzing the semantic content and persuasive composition of extremist media: A case study of texts produced during the Gaza conflict

Radical right-wing movements: Who, when, how and why?

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