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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

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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/
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