Terror on the Internet : the new arena, the new challenges

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Title:

Author:

Weimann, Gabriel, 1950-

ISBN:

9781929223718

Personal Author:

Weimann, Gabriel, 1950-

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xv, 309 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

New terrorism, new media -- The war over minds : the psychology of terrorism -- Communicative uses of the Internet for terrorism -- Instrumental uses of the Internet for terrorism -- Cyberterrorism : how real is the threat? -- Fighting back : responses to terrorism on the Internet, and their cost -- Balancing security and civil liberties.

Subject Term:

Terrorism -- Computer network resources.

Hate groups -- Computer network resources.

Cyberterrorism -- Prevention.

Terrorism -- Prevention.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005034147.html

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Summary

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.