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Terrorism Online: A New Strategic Environment

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, David Mair

Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology, Issue: 1

Swansea University Authors: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, David Mair

DOI (Published version): 10.4324/9781315848822

Abstract

This chapter outlines a range of terrorists’ online activities. The chapter argues that the Internet has produced a number of changes in both terrorists’ objectives and their operations. Unlike the theory of new terrorism, however, the chapter does not attribute these changes to changes in the terro...

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Published in: Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology
ISBN: 9780415732888 9781315848822
Published: London Routledge 2015
Online Access: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415732888/
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17547
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Abstract: This chapter outlines a range of terrorists’ online activities. The chapter argues that the Internet has produced a number of changes in both terrorists’ objectives and their operations. Unlike the theory of new terrorism, however, the chapter does not attribute these changes to changes in the terrorist groups themselves. Rather, it attributes them to the changing environment in which the groups are operating. The chapter explains that it is important that counterterrorism strategies are evaluated in the light of these changes in order to ensure that they reflect the differences between offline and online dynamics.
Keywords: Terrorism, Internet, cyberterrorism, counterterrorism
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 1