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Online jihadi instructional content: the role of magazines

Conway, Maura, Parker, Jodie and Looney, Sean (2017) Online jihadi instructional content: the role of magazines. In: Conway, Maura orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4216-8592, Jarvis, Lee, Lehane, Orla, Macdonald, Stuart and Nouri, Lella, (eds.) Terrorists’ Use of the Internet: Assessment and Response. NATO Science for Peace and Security - E: Human and Societal Dynamics, 136 . IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 182-193. ISBN 978-1-61499-764-1

Abstract
This chapter focuses on the instructional content, both text and images, published in 26 issues of three jihadi magazines: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire, Inspire’s forerunner Jihad Recollections, and Somali Al-Shabab’s Gaidi M’taani. Instruction was found to be a core component of Inspire as distinct from the varying types and levels of instruction appearing in Jihad Recollections and Gaidi M’taani. Noticeable too was that the text and images composing bomb-making instructional guides were not only the commonest, but also the most detailed types of guides contained in Inspire, with both a high number of images and lengthy supporting text. A clear finding is thus that the purpose of AQAP’s Inspire was not just to inspire readers, in the sense of infusing them with some thought or feeling, but also to supply them with instructions on how these thoughts or feelings could be violently actuated.
Metadata
Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Internet, ISIS, Magazines, Online, Terrorism
Subjects:Social Sciences > Terrorism
Social Sciences > Communication
Social Sciences > Mass media
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Research Initiatives and Centres > Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:IOS Press
Official URL:http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/terrorists-use-of...
Copyright Information:© 2017 IOS Press
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:European Framework Programme 7, NATO Science for Peace and Security
ID Code:21841
Deposited On:06 Jul 2017 08:48 by Maura Conway . Last Modified 27 Aug 2018 13:37
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