Umfang:
1 online resource (265 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-4411-2439-5
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978-1-5013-0104-9
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1-4411-2439-X
Serie:
New directions in terrorism studies
Anmerkung:
Print version record
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Terror on the internet?; 2 Alternative media and its alternatives; 3 Jihadi content on the World Wide Web; Jihadiyyat and ideological partisanship; Realizing 'the Jihadi'; Explaining 'synthetic' and 'integrated' Jihadism; 4 Jihadi forums in their own words; 5 Disagreeable disagreements; 6 Being a jihadi on the internet; How do jihadis resolve this contradiction?; 7 Some other 'jihadi' consumption cultures: Crusaderism, war porn, shock; 8 Jihadism between fantasy and virtuality, a tentative conclusion; Notes; Glossary of Arabic terms
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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. This unique survey features case studies, such as
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ramsay, Gilbert Jihadi Culture on the World Wide Web
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Islam
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Fundamentalismus
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Terrorismus
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World Wide Web
DOI:
10.5040/9781501301049
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501301049?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
