Mobilisation and violence in the new media ecology: The Dua Khalil Aswad and Camilia Shehata cases

Critical Studies on Terrorism

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-256

  Al Lami, Mina ^a   Hoskins, Andrew ^b   O'Loughlin, Ben ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Al Qaeda; Egypt; gender; Internet; Iraq; media; new media ecology; terrorism; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864689197     PISSN: 17539153     EISSN: 17539161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2012.692509     Document Type: Article

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