Uncovering the Dark Web: A case study of Jjihad on the Web

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1347-1359

  Chen, Hsinchun ^a   Chung, Wingyan ^b   Qin, Jialun ^c   Reid, Edna ^d   Sageman, Marc ^e   Weimann, Gabriel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^d CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY LEVELS; APPLIED (CO); CASE STUDIES; EFFICIENT ANALYSIS; EXPERT EVALUATION; HIGH POTENTIAL; INFORMATION COLLECTIONS; INFORMATION OVERLOADING; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; POLICY MAKING; REVERSE SIDE; TERRORIST ACTIVITIES; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES; WEB INFORMATION;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 45849099772     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20838     Document Type: Article

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