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A snapshot of the Syrian jihadi online ecology: differential disruption, community strength, and preferred other platforms

Conway, Maura orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4216-8592, Khawaja, Moign orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-4198-4224, Lakhani, Suraj orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3077-4133 and Reffin, Jeremy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0080-3685 (2021) A snapshot of the Syrian jihadi online ecology: differential disruption, community strength, and preferred other platforms. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism . ISSN 1057-610X

Abstract
This article contributes to the growing literature on extremist and terrorist online ecologies and approaches to snapshotting these. It opens by measuring Twitter’s differential disruption of so-called “Islamic State” versus other jihadi parties to the Syria conflict, showing that while Twitter became increasingly inhospitable to IS in 2017 and 2018, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham retained strong communities on the platform during the same period. An analysis of the same groups’ Twitter out-linking activity has the twofold purpose of determining the reach of groups’ content by quantifying the number of platforms it was available on and analyzing the nature and functionalities of the online spaces out-linked to.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Online Ecosystem; Internet; Social Media,
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine learning
Computer Science > World Wide Web
Social Sciences > Communication
Social Sciences > Mass media
Social Sciences > Terrorism
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for International Studies (CIS)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1866736
Copyright Information:© 2021 Taylor & Francis
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:EU Framework Programme 7 [Grant number 312827: VOX-Pol Network of Excellence], U.K. Home Office
ID Code:25398
Deposited On:19 Jan 2021 11:34 by Maura Conway . Last Modified 13 Apr 2023 11:13
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