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Terror and the Web
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Terror on the Web
by
Victor Asal
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Rockefeller College,
University at Albany, SUNY
Milne Hall, 135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Email:
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Office tel: 518 591-8729
Paul G. Harwood
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and Public
Administration, University of North
Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, South
Jacksonville FL32224
Email:
## email not listed ##
Office tel: 904-620-1080
There has been a growing awareness of the use of the web by terrorists both as a tool for communication amongst themselves but also as a tool to communicate their message to others, enemies, supporters and potential supporters. Many posit that one of the key goals of terror is to demand attention. In a sense terrorism can be viewed as violent advertising for a cause. The world wide web creates a new media platform where terrorists’ messages can be spread. We posit that groups using violence to spread their message will be interested in increasing the amount of cyberspace focusing on them and thus either directly or indirectly on their message. We hypothesize that violence is an effective way of building up a larger web space devoted to ones cause. Specifically we test the relationship of the number of fatalities caused by terrorist groups and the number of websites that deal with the groups while controlling for the level of internet usage by target countries.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Washington, DC. August 31
st
-September 4
th
, 2005.
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Terror on the Web
by
Victor Asal
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Rockefeller College,
University at Albany, SUNY
Milne Hall, 135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 USA
Office tel: 518 591-8729
Paul G. Harwood
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and Public
Administration, University of North
Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road, South
Jacksonville FL32224
Email:
Office tel: 904-620-1080
There has been a growing awareness of the use of the web
by terrorists both as a tool for communication amongst
themselves but also as a tool to communicate their message
to others, enemies, supporters and potential supporters.
Many posit that one of the key goals of terror is to demand
attention. In a sense terrorism can be viewed as violent
advertising for a cause. The world wide web creates a new
media platform where terrorists’ messages can be spread.
We posit that groups using violence to spread their message
will be interested in increasing the amount of cyberspace
focusing on them and thus either directly or indirectly on
their message. We hypothesize that violence is an effective
way of building up a larger web space devoted to ones
cause. Specifically we test the relationship of the number of
fatalities caused by terrorist groups and the number of
websites that deal with the groups while controlling for the
level of internet usage by target countries.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Washington, DC. August 31
st
-September 4
th
, 2005.
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