Conway, Maura ORCID: 0000-0003-4216-8592, Khawaja, Moign ORCID: 0000-0002-4198-4224, Lakhani, Suraj ORCID: 0000-0002-3077-4133 and Reffin, Jeremy ORCID: 0000-0002-0080-3685 (2021) A snapshot of the Syrian jihadi online ecology: differential disruption, community strength, and preferred other platforms. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism . ISSN 1057-610X
Abstract
This article contributes to the growing literature on extremist and terrorist online ecologies and approaches to snapshotting these. It opens by measuring Twitter’s differential disruption of so-called “Islamic State” versus other jihadi parties to the Syria conflict, showing that while Twitter became increasingly inhospitable to IS in 2017 and 2018, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham retained strong communities on the platform during the same period. An analysis of the same groups’ Twitter out-linking activity has the twofold purpose of determining the reach of groups’ content by quantifying the number of platforms it was available on and analyzing the nature and functionalities of the online spaces out-linked to.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Online Ecosystem; Internet; Social Media, |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine learning Computer Science > World Wide Web Social Sciences > Communication Social Sciences > Mass media Social Sciences > Terrorism |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for International Studies (CIS) Research Institutes and Centres > DCU Conflict Institute |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1866736 |
Copyright Information: | © 2021 Taylor & Francis |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | EU Framework Programme 7 [Grant number 312827: VOX-Pol Network of Excellence], U.K. Home Office |
ID Code: | 25398 |
Deposited On: | 19 Jan 2021 11:34 by Maura Conway . Last Modified 13 Apr 2023 11:13 |
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