Conway, Maura ORCID: 0000-0003-4216-8592, Khawaja, Moign ORCID: 0000-0002-4198-4224, Lakhani, Suraj ORCID: 0000-0002-3077-4133, Reffin, Jeremy ORCID: 0000-0002-0080-3685, Robertson, Andrew and Weir, David (2018) Disrupting Daesh: measuring takedown of online terrorist material and it's impacts. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 42 (1-2). pp. 141-160. ISSN 1057-610X
Abstract
This report seeks to contribute to public and policy debates on the value of social media disruption activity with respect to terrorist material. We look in particular at aggressive account and content takedown, with the aim of accurately measuring this activity and its impacts. Our findings challenge the notion that Twitter remains a conducive space for Islamic State (IS) accounts and communities to flourish, although IS continues to distribute propaganda through this channel. However, not all jihadists on Twitter are subject to the same high levels of disruption as IS, and we show that there is differential disruption taking place. IS’s and other jihadists’ online activity was never solely restricted to Twitter. Twitter is just one node in a wider jihadist social media ecology. We describe and discuss this, and supply some preliminary analysis of disruption trends in this area.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | ISIS; Islamic State; Twitter; YouTube |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine learning Social Sciences > International relations Social Sciences > Terrorism Social Sciences > Communication Computer Science > World Wide Web |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government Research Institutes and Centres > DCU Conflict Institute |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2018.1513984 |
Copyright Information: | © 2018 The Authors. |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | European Union Framework Programme 7 grant no. 312827: VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, UK Home Office. |
ID Code: | 21961 |
Deposited On: | 05 Sep 2017 08:16 by Maura Conway . Last Modified 13 Apr 2023 11:13 |
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