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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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Review of Social Science Literature on Radicalizat ...

2014

This 2014 paper reviewed relevant empirical social science studies to gain perspective on two questions: 1) Are there accepted risk factors or indicators that signal increasing radicalization on the pathway to violent extremism?

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The Northern Virginia Military Shooting Series: Op ...

February 2013

This 2013 article examines the case of a Marine Corps reservist who perpetrated a series of attacks against military facilities in Virginia in October and November 2010.

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Preliminary Analytical Considerations in Designing ...

2014

This 2014 paper presents a web-crawler called the Terrorism and Extremism Network Extractor (TENE), designed to gather information about extremist activities on the Internet.

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Using Social Media for Global Security

2013

This 2013 book aims to inform government decision-makers, security analysts, and activists on how to use the social world to improve security locally, nationally, globally, and cost-effectively.

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Cooperative Game Theoretic Centrality Analysis of ...

2013

This 2013 paper introduces a methodology that incorporates information available on terrorist networks, into the analysis of social networks underlying terrorist groups.

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Modeling Terrorist Networks - Complex Systems at t ...

2013

This 2013 paper focuses on the modelling of terrorist networks online and addresses changes in technology and the associated creation of new security dynamics and threats.

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Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Medi ...

2012

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.

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