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Jihadi culture on the World Wide Web /

By: Material type: TextSeries: Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 255 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 1501307673
  • 9781501307676
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.3250285/4678
Contents:
Terror on the Internet? -- Alternative media and its alternatives -- Jihadi content on the World Wide Web -- Jihadi forums in their own words -- Disagreeable disagreements -- Being a jihadi on the Internet -- Some other 'jihadi' consumption cultures : crusaderism, war porn, shock -- Jihadism between fantasy and virtuality, a tentative conclusion.
Summary: "This volume examines "jihadi" content on the Internet by drawing on both Arabic and English primary source materials. After examining this content as digital media, the work looks at how it is productively consumed by online communities, including how "jihadi" individuals construct themselves online and how jihadism is practiced and represented as an online activity. The work also discusses the consumption of such jihadi media by those who are hostile to radical Islam and the relation between fantasy, pleasure, ideology, and ordinary life. The survey features case studies, such as the cyberjihadi "Irhabi 007," pro-US and Israeli "patriots" who are often openly Islamophobic, and "Infovlad" --a forum that became the meeting place for radical Islamists and radical freelance "counter terrorists"--From publisher information.
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Books Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). BP190.R36 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0163721
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Terror on the Internet? -- Alternative media and its alternatives -- Jihadi content on the World Wide Web -- Jihadi forums in their own words -- Disagreeable disagreements -- Being a jihadi on the Internet -- Some other 'jihadi' consumption cultures : crusaderism, war porn, shock -- Jihadism between fantasy and virtuality, a tentative conclusion.

"This volume examines "jihadi" content on the Internet by drawing on both Arabic and English primary source materials. After examining this content as digital media, the work looks at how it is productively consumed by online communities, including how "jihadi" individuals construct themselves online and how jihadism is practiced and represented as an online activity. The work also discusses the consumption of such jihadi media by those who are hostile to radical Islam and the relation between fantasy, pleasure, ideology, and ordinary life. The survey features case studies, such as the cyberjihadi "Irhabi 007," pro-US and Israeli "patriots" who are often openly Islamophobic, and "Infovlad" --a forum that became the meeting place for radical Islamists and radical freelance "counter terrorists"--From publisher information.

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