Tweeting the Jihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq
Tweeting the Jihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq
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10.1080/1057610x.2014.974948
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2015-01-02
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Klausen, Jytte
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Klausen, Jytte
社交媒体在圣战分子在叙利亚和伊拉克及其他地区的行动战略中发挥了重要作用。 Twitter 尤其被用来推动其他社交媒体平台上的交流。来自叛乱分子的推特流可能会给人一种真实性的错觉，因为这是习惯于使用手机进行自我发布的一代人的自发活动，但访问和内容在多大程度上受到控制？从 2014 年 1 月到 3 月的三个月时间里，我们从 59 名已知身在叙利亚的西方裔武装分子的 Twitter 帐户中收集了信息。使用滚雪球方法，使用 59 个起始帐户来收集有关整个网络中最受欢迎的帐户的数据。对叙利亚西部武装分子 Twitter 用户数据进行的社交网络分析表明，属于叛乱地区恐怖组织的支线帐户以及与被禁英国组织 Al Muhajiroun 相关的欧洲组织帐户，尤其是伦敦传教士 Anjem Choudary 所发挥的控制作用。
Social media have played an essential role in the jihadists' operational strategy in Syria and Iraq, and beyond. Twitter in particular has been used to drive communications over other social media platforms. Twitter streams from the insurgency may give the illusion of authenticity, as a spontaneous activity of a generation accustomed to using their cell phones for self-publication, but to what extent is access and content controlled? Over a period of three months, from January through March 2014, information was collected from the Twitter accounts of 59 Western-origin fighters known to be in Syria. Using a snowball method, the 59 starter accounts were used to collect data about the most popular accounts in the network-at-large. Social network analysis on the data collated about Twitter users in the Western Syria-based fighters points to the controlling role played by feeder accounts belonging to terrorist organizations in the insurgency zone, and by Europe-based organizational accounts associated with the banned British organization, Al Muhajiroun, and in particular the London-based preacher, Anjem Choudary.