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CO3714 Assignment 3
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Political Communication In CMC
Terrorism and the Internet
Manuel Janka
Terrorism
Use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce people
These groups often for political purposes
Need media to show people what they did
Terrorism
Internet ideal media 1/3 Easy access
It is easy to get access to the internet.
Little regulation Less regulation if you compare it with a other medias (for
example the newspaper)
Huge audiences spread throughout the world Many people have connection to the internet, therefore
you can easily reach huge mass of people.
Terrorism
Internet ideal media 2/3 Anonymity of communication
It is very difficult to trace which computer created which webpage and its nearly impossible to know who used that computer.
Fast flow of information If you upload a homepage, everybody with an internet
connection has immediately access to it.
Terrorism
Internet ideal media 3/3 Inexpensive
Internet access is not expensive. For example you often have free access to the internet on the most airports.
A multimedia environment In the internet, you can easily use different environment.
For example: Text, Picture, Video, Audio, …
Terrorism
Content of terrorist sites 1/2
History of the organizationThey want to show, when and why they were founded
History of activitiesEverybody should know what they already did.
Terrorism
Content of terrorist sites 2/2
Details from leaders, founders and heroesAll important people were presented Also the famous martyrs
has their biographies on their website and where celebrated as heroes.
Information over their political and ideological aimsProbably the most important fact are their political ideology
and their planned aims to get their ideology
Terrorism
Audiences Current and potential supporters
People who helps the terrorism group.
International public opinionPeople who want to stay up to date and increase their
general knowledge.
Enemy publicsThey also want to reach their enemies to demoralize or
frighten them.
Terrorism
Usage of Internet for terrorists 1/4 Psychological Warfare
Change the attitude of the enemy with that warfare. It is also used to deliver fear.
Publicity and PropagandaThey use the internet to get famous. Their aim is that
everybody knows them and their intentions
Terrorism
Usage of Internet for terrorists 2/4 Data Mining
The Internet is the biggest library. Terrorists also need knowledge. One example is “How to build a bomb”. They often get that information from the internet
FundraisingEverybody needs money, also terrorists. They use their
web platform usually to get donations to realize their plan.
Terrorism
Usage of Internet for terrorists 3/4 Recruitment and Mobilization
Terrorists need supporters for their intention. They use the internet to find them.
Sharing InformationTerrorist groups usually want to share the information
with everyone. One Example is, that Hamas have on their official homage a receipt for homemade poison.
Terrorism
Usage of Internet for terrorists 4/4 Networking
They also use the internet to stay in contact with other terrorist groups.
Planning and CoordinationThe Internet is used as communication media for
planning their attacks. One Example for that is that after the Sept. 11th, they found thousands of encrypted texts of Al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda
Sunni Islamistic group
Founded between 1988 and 1990
Famous for assassination 11/9/2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG7GDEDjQA4
Many web platforms, but most got disabled
Al Jazeera Official English hompage
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Speaker for Al Qaeda
Founded as news channel
Got famous and big through Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda Now they have many different channels and different languages And many live streams
Al Jazeera is nowadays a very big broadcast network.
Al Jazeera
Bibliography
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Different Definations of Terrorismhttp://www.google.at/search?hl=de&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&hs=M4Y&defl=en&q=define:terrorism&ei=msO6Sd3fKJC0jAfavoCcCA&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Knickmeyer, E. (2008). Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101703367_pf.html
Offizial English Hompage of Al Jazeera.http://english.aljazeera.net/
Talbot, D. (2005). Terror's Server - How radical Islamists use internet fraud to finance terrorism and exploit the internet for Jihad propaganda and recruitmenthttp://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/404
Bibliography Timothy, T. (2003). Al Qaeda and the Internet: The Danger of “Cyberplanning”
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/parameters/03spring/thomas.pdf
Weimann, G. (2004). WWW.Terror.Net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet.http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.pdf
Weimann, G. (2008). Mass-Media Theater: Planning terrorist actions with the media as a major considerationhttp://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2008/May/20080522173339SrenoD0.2942469.html
Weimann, G (2009). Virtual Terrorism: How Modern Terrorists Use the Internethttp://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/9/2/0/5/pages92053/p92053-1.php
Wikipedia, Al Qaedahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda