1st Edition
Constructing the Cyberterrorist Critical Reflections on the UK Case
By Gareth Mott
Copyright 2020
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book maps and analyses the official British construction of the threat of cyberterrorism. By using interpretive discourse analysis, this book identifies ‘strands’ from a corpus of policy documents, statements, and speeches from UK Ministers, MPs, and Peers between 12 May 2010 and 24 June 2016. The book examines how the threat of cyberterrorism was constructed in the UK, and what this... Read more
Introduction: locating the ‘cyberterrorist’ within cyberspace and academia
1. Interpreting the construction of hypothetical threatening actors in cyberspace
2. The discursive construction of the threat of cyberterrorism to the UK
3. Running out of time: cyberterrorism as a temporally distinct threat
4. Locating the cyberterrorist: cyberterrorism as a spatially unique threat
5. Narrating the cyberterrorist: from fiction to reality
Conclusion
Biography
Gareth Mott is a lecturer in security and intelligence at the University of Kent, UK.
