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A snapshot of the Syrian Jihadi online ecology: differential disruption, community strength, and preferred other platforms
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posted on 2023-06-09, 22:42 authored by Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj LakhaniSuraj Lakhani, Jeremy ReffinJeremy ReffinThis 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.
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Studies in Conflict and TerrorismISSN
1057-610XPublisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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1-19Department affiliated with
- Engineering and Design Publications
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2021-01-11First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-07-05First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-01-11Usage metrics
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