Communication
"Social Media, Online Networks and the Preven ...
In 2013, The SecDev Group undertook a 10-month Kanishka-funded project that set out, in part, to explore methodologies and technologies for open source social media (OSSM) research and their potential utility for detecting weak signals of radicalization towards violent extremism online.
Terrorism and Communication: A Critical Introducti ...
This 2013 textbook examines terrorism in relation to the field of communication studies. The core tenant of the book is that terrorism is essentially a message.
Detecting Online Extremist Networks Using Open Sou ...
This research note summarizes experimental research conducted by The SecDev Group in 2013, as part of a Public Safety Canada, Kanishka-funded project looking at social media analytics and the prevention of violent extremism.
Detecting Toxic Content using Open Source Social M ...
This experiment used the Twitter profile of a U.K. national, verified to be an active foreign fighter (FF) in the Syrian civil war, as the seed for constructing a network topology based on social media interactions.
Assessment of A Foreign Fighter’s Twitter Trajec ...
This summary captures the main findings of a longitudinal content analysis of a known foreign fighter’s (FF) public social media activity for signs of radicalization toward violent extremism.
Using SentiWordNet and Sentiment Analysis for Dete ...
This 2012 paper presents a model that was built using sentiment analysis scores from analyzing selected web forums that included radical content. The study looked at two Arabic language web forums and extracted a sample of 500 sentences from each, which were then manually translated.
Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Medi ...
This netnographic study examines al-Shabaab’s Western media strategy. The authors focus their study on the group’s recruitment of Western Muslims through the analysis of primary sources, interviews in East Africa and a quantitative analysis of the group’s Twitter outputs.
Modelling Relationship Strength in Online Networks ...
The article aims to build an unsupervised model to estimate relationship strength based on profile similarity and interaction activity.
Violent Jihadism in Real Time: Al-Shabaab’s Use ...
This short article is the Research Brief for the full report: “Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy”, which is also available in this Portal.
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