Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges - Hardcover

Weimann, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1929223714 ISBN 13: 9781929223718

Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006

Synopsis

Drawing on a seven-year study of the World Wide Web and a wide variety of literature, the author examines how modern terrorist organizations exploit the Internet to raise funds, recruit, and propagandize, as well as to plan and launch attacks and to publicize their chilling results.

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From the Publisher:

Describes how terrorist organizations use the Internet to coordinate group action and publicize their ideology and their successes.

Assesses the cyberterrorist threat we face.

Suggests how to balance the competing concerns for cyber security and civil liberties.

About the Author:

Gabriel Weimann is a professor of communication at the University of Haifa, Israel, and a former senior fellow at USIP. A prolific analyst of terrorism and the mass media, his publications include over one hundred scientific articles and five books, among them Communicating Unreality: Mass Media and Reconstruction of Realities and The Theater of Terror: The Mass Media and International Terrorism. Weimann has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Hofstra University, Lehigh University (USA), University of Mainz (Germany), Carleton University (Canada), and the National University of Singapore. He has received numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the Fulbright Foundation, the Canadian Israel Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the German National Research Foundation (D.F.G.), the Sasakawa Foundation, and USIP.

About this edition

• Publisher: United States Institute of Peace Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1929223714
• ISBN 13: 9781929223718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 325