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What every jihadi in Syria needs: hair gel, an iPa ...

2013

This short news article in The Daily Telegraph discusses European and North American jihadis’ use of Twitter and social media in Syria.

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Syria’s Socially Mediated Civil War

January 2014

This source criticizes videos, analysis, and commentary circulated throughout Western social media for its reliance on English-only sources on the Syrian Civil War, promoting a biased and often inaccurate perspective on the conflict.

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Al-Nusra Front: Breaking al-Qaeda’s Forum Monopo ...

April 2014

This article describes the methods through which the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria, has come into conflict with pro-Islamic State accounts and users on online platforms.

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"Social Media, Online Networks and the Preven ...

2014

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.

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Locating Cyberterrorism: How Researchers Use and V ...

2014

This 2014 article reports on the findings of a 2012 survey on the concept of cyberterrorism. More than 600 terrorism studies researchers working in twenty-four different countries and across six continents conducted the initial survey.

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Detecting Online Extremist Networks Using Open Sou ...

2014

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.

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Detecting Toxic Content using Open Source Social M ...

2014

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.

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Assessment of A Foreign Fighter’s Twitter Trajec ...

2014

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.

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Online Social Media in the Syria Conflict: Encompa ...

2014

This 2014 paper utilizes a form of network representation that incorporates multiple data views to uncover and categorize networks of accounts that fall into four broadly defined groups in the Syrian conflict.

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