Jihadi video and auto-radicalisation: Evidence from an exploratory YouTube study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5376 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 108-118

  Conway, Maura ^a   McInerney, Lisa ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Auto radicalisation; Iraq; Jihad; Jihadi video; Martyr; Online radicalisation; YouTube

Indexed keywords

AUTO-RADICALISATION; IRAQ; JIHAD; JIHADI VIDEO; MARTYR; ONLINE RADICALISATION; YOUTUBE;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 58849133782     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89900-6_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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