Violent Extremism Online
This book explores the interface between terrorism and the Internet, and presents contemporary approaches to understanding violent extremism online.
The volume focuses on four issues in particular: terrorist propaganda on the Internet, radicalisation and the Internet, counter campaigns and approaches to disrupting Internet radicalisation, and approaches to researching and understanding the role of the Internet in radicalisation. The book brings together expertise from a wide range of disciplines and geographical regions including Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. These contributions explore the various roles played by the Internet in radicalisation, the reasons why terroristic propaganda may or may not influence others to engage in violence, the role of political conflict in online radicalisation, and the future of research in terrorism and the Internet. By covering this broad range of topics, the volume will make an important and timely addition to the current collections on a growing and international subject.
This book will be of much interest to students and researchers of cybersecurity, Internet politics, terrorism studies, media and communications studies, and International Relations.
Anne Aly is Professor and Director of the Countering Online Violent Extremism Research Program at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
Stuart Macdonald is Professor in Law at Swansea University, UK.
Lee Jarvis is Reader in International Security at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Thomas Chen is Professor in Cyber Security at City University London, UK.
Media, War and Security
Series Editors: Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow and Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University
This series interrogates and illuminates the mutually shaping relationship between war and media as transformative of contemporary society, politics and culture.
Global Terrorism and New Media
The Post Al-Qaeda Generation
Philip Seib and Dana M Janabek
Radicalisation and the Media
Legitimising Violence in the New Media
Akil N Awan, Andrew Hoskins and Ben OLoughlin
Hollywood and the CIA
Cinema, Defense and Subversion
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, David Herrera and Jim Baumann
Violence and War in Culture and the Media
Athina Karatzogianni
Military Media Management
Negotiating the Front Line in Mediatized War
Sarah Maltby
Icons of War and Terror
Media Images in an Age of International Risk
Edited by John Tulloch and R Warwick Blood
Memory, Conflict and New Media
Web Wars in Post-Socialist States
Edited by Julie Fedor, Ellen Rutten and Vera Zvereva
Violent Extremism Online
New Perspectives on Terrorism and the Internet
Edited by Anne Aly, Thomas Chen, Lee Jarvis and Stuart Macdonald
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Names: Aly, Anne, 1967 editor.
Title: Violent extremism online : new perspectives on terrorism and the
Internet / edited by Anne Aly, Stuart Macdonald, Lee Jarvis and Thomas Chen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016003339 | ISBN 9781138912298 (hardback) | ISBN
9781315692029 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Internet and terrorism | Extremist Web sites. | Terrorists
Recruiting.
Classification: LCC HV6431 .V567 2016 | DDC 363.3250285/4678dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016003339
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Dedicated to the memory
of Mahmoud Fawzi Aly
(19322015)
Contents
Anne Aly, Thomas Chen, Lee Jarvis and Stuart Macdonald
Martin Rudner
Angela Gendron
Gabriel Weimann
David Mair
Keiran Hardy
Anne Aly
Maura Conway
Sarah Logan
Halim Rane
Anne Aly is Professor at Edith Cowan University and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She is the Director of the Global Issues Practice Centre and Founding Chair of PaVE, a not-for-profit civil society organisation to counter violent extremism in Australia and the region. Anne founded and led the Countering online Violent Extremism Research (CoVER) Program at Curtin University, and is the author of over fifty texts on radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism. She is the author of Terrorism and Global Security : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Thomas Chen is a Professor in Cyber Security at City University London, and former Professor in Networks at Swansea University, UK. He is the co-editor (with Lee Jarvis and Stuart Macdonald) of Cyberterrorism : Understanding , Assessment and Response (Springer, 2014) and Terrorism Online : Politics , Law and Technology (Routledge, 2015). He has carried out research projects sponsored by various agencies (EPSRC, US National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security) and companies (Nortel, Sprint, Alcatel). He has served as editor-in-chief of three IEEE publications.
Maura Conway is Associate Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland, and Coordinator of VOX-Pol, a 5 million EU-funded project on violent online political extremism (voxpol.eu). Dr Conways principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, including academic and media discourses on cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremist online content, and violent online radicalisation. She is the author of over forty articles and chapters in her specialist area(s). Her research has appeared in, among others, Current History , Media , War and Conflict , Parliamentary Affairs and Social Science Computer Review . She has presented her findings before the United Nations in New York, the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, and elsewhere.
Angela Gendron was appointed Senior Fellow at the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, following a former professional career as a British crown servant specialising in intelligence and security issues. Her time is divided between research, teaching and training on topics ranging from the ethics of intelligence collection and unmanned aerial systems, to privacy issues and cybersecurity. She has published on a wide range of topics in leading international journals and institution reports including the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence , the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal , the Royal United Services Institute, and the Caspian Strategic Institute and co-authored with Martin Rudner an Occasional Paper published by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, titled Assessing Cyber Threats to Canadian Infrastructure (2012). Besides teaching at Carleton University and on Masters courses at Brunel and Buckingham Universities in the UK, she has delivered training courses in Canada, the UK, USA, Turkey, Romania, Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago.