Cyber extremism in Web 2.0: An exploratory study of international Jihadist groups

Hsinchun Chen; Sven Thoms; Tianjun Fu

doi:10.1109/ISI.2008.4565037

Cyber extremism in Web 2.0: An exploratory study of international Jihadist groups

Hsinchun Chen, Sven Thoms, Tianjun Fu

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Abstract

As part of the NSF-funded Dark Web research project, this paper presents an exploratory study of cyber extremism on the Web 2.0 media: blogs, YouTube, and Second Life. We examine international Jihadist extremist groups that use each of these media. We observe that these new, interactive, multimedia-rich forms of communication provide effective means for extremists to promote their ideas, share resources, and communicate among each other. The development of automated collection and analysis tools for Web 2.0 can help policy makers, intelligence analysts, and researchers to better understand extremists' ideas and communication patterns, which may lead to strategies that can counter the threats posed by extremists in the second-generation Web.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	98-103
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2008.4565037
State	Published - 2008
Event	IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008, IEEE ISI 2008 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: Jun 17 2008 → Jun 20 2008

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Other	IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008, IEEE ISI 2008
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	6/17/08 → 6/20/08

Keywords

Blogs
Extremism
Second life
Web 2.0
YouTube

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Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems

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