Cyber extremism in Web 2.0: An exploratory study of international Jihadist groups

IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008, IEEE ISI 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 98-103

  Chen, Hsinchun ^a   Thoms, Sven ^a   Fu, Tianjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Extremism; Second life; Web 2.0; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; AUTOMATED COLLECTION; BLOGS; COMMUNICATION PATTERNS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; EXTREMISM; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; POLICY MAKERS; RESEARCH PROJECTS; SECOND LIFE; SECURITY INFORMATICS; WEB 2.0; YOUTUBE;

INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 51849113693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2008.4565037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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