The rise of Jihadist propaganda on social networks
By Adam Badawy, Emilio Ferrara. 2017
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Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS sympathizers, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to spread its propaganda and recruit militants from the Arab world and across the globe. By distinguishing between violence-driven, theological, and sectarian content, we trace the connection between online rhetoric and key events on the ground. To the best of our knowledge, ours is one of the first studies to focus on Arabic content, while most literature focuses on English content. Our findings yield new important insights about how social media is used by radical militant groups to target the Arab-speaking world, and reveal important patterns in their propaganda efforts.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions (2019, methodology): “d two datasets (i) tweets of Pro-ISIS users10, and (ii) tweets of users reported by the Lucky Troll Club11 that have been verified and suspended by Twitterbecause of ISIS-related supportive activity12[12]. The data and labels were manually curated by annotators who are experts in the Arabic language”