1st Edition

Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses

Edited By Maura Conway, Stuart Macdonald Copyright 2020
252 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

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. Featuring contributions from experts across a range of disciplines, the volume examines a variety of aspects of IS’s online activity, including their strategic... Read more

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

Biography

Maura Conway is Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland.





Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Law at Swansea University, UK.