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A Study of Outlinks Contained in Tweets Mentioning Rumiyah
Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the attempts by Daesh (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS) to use Twitter to disseminate its online magazine, Rumiyah. It examines a dataset of 11,520 tweets mentioning Rumiyah that contained an outlink, to evaluate the success of Daesh’s attempts to use Tw...
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2019
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https://gnet-research.org/2020/01/07/a-study-of-outlinks-contained-in-tweets-mentioning-rumiyah/ |
URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50989 |
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Abstract: |
This paper focuses on the attempts by Daesh (also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS) to use Twitter to disseminate its online magazine, Rumiyah. It examines a dataset of 11,520 tweets mentioning Rumiyah that contained an outlink, to evaluate the success of Daesh’s attempts to use Twitter as a gateway to issues of its magazine. |
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Keywords: |
Counterterrorism, social media, propaganda, radicalisation |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |