A multi-region empirical study on the internet presence of global extremist organizations

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-88

  Qin, Jialun ^a   Zhou, Yilu ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremism; Internet; Web mining

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DARK WEB; DOMAIN EXPERTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXTREMISM; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTERACTIVITY; INTERNET COMMUNICATION; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET USAGE; MEDIA RICHNESS; WEB COLLECTIONS; WEB CRAWLING; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB MINING; WEB PRESENCE;

SECURITY OF DATA; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 79952900214     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9277-6     Document Type: Article

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