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Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology
Stuart Macdonald 
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Lee Jarvis,
Thomas Chen
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Lee Jarvis,
Thomas Chen
Swansea University Author:
Stuart Macdonald
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a small, but growing, collection of book length publications dealing with cyberterrorism or cognate issues. These existing books mostly take a single perspective: technological, political, or sociological. In contrast, Terrorism Online utilises a multidisciplinary framewo...
| ISBN: | 9780415732888 9781315848822 |
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| Published: |
Abingdon
Routledge
2015
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| Online Access: |
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415732888/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16644 |
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| Abstract: |
Recent years have witnessed a small, but growing, collection of book length publications dealing with cyberterrorism or cognate issues. These existing books mostly take a single perspective: technological, political, or sociological. In contrast, Terrorism Online utilises a multidisciplinary framework to provide a broader introduction to debates and developments that have largely been conducted in isolation to date.Drawing together a range of key academics in the field, this edited volume is organised around three broad themes. First, how – and why – do terrorists engage with the Internet, digital technologies and cyberspace? Second, what threat do these various activities pose, and to whom? And, third, how might these activities be prevented, deterred or responded to? Exploring these themes, the book engages with a range of contemporary case studies and different forms of terrorism: from lone-actor to state-based. The book’s engagement with questions of law, politics, technology and beyond is intended to offer a holistic approach to this subject matter, and provides the unique selling point of the book. |
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| Keywords: |
Terrorism, Internet, Counterterrorism, Cyberattack, Political science, Political freedom and security, Computer crimes political aspects, Society |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |