Research Proposal Jazmin Hernandez Intelligence 501: Strategic Intelligence July 16th, 2017 Introduction With an increase in social media use by most generations, terrorist organizations have shifted to using social media as well. Terrorist organizations have found the benefit of using social to recruit, communicate, and spread terror. Many people know that with the rise in putting more information online, people are having more and more access to thing that they never did before. Terrorist organizations have learn to adapt and use this opportunity as a new way to do many things that benefit they what to do. Many Scholars have studied different ways terrorist organizations have change some of their technique but very few have …show more content…
It is commonly know that social media has brought different worlds and life together by the easier means of being able to communicate, this is why I want to explore how terrorist organizations use social media. Social media has been a great advancement but how can it be used against us as society? And how can our enemies use social media? The independent variable is the use of social media by terrorist organizations the dependent variable is how effective the use of social media is on terrorist organizations …show more content…
The population will be terrorist organization; I will examine whether they use social media and how they do. The following questions are what I am aim to answer through data that will be collected. Do terrorist organizations post horrific images for the public to see? Do terrorist organizations try to post things to recruit people to fight for their cause? Do terrorist organizations communicate to people who are fighting for their cause through social media? Are all these uses of social media effective? Do terrorist organizations have more success at scaring the public through social media? Do terrorist organizations have more success encouraging other to join them through social media? Do terrorist organizations have more success communicate world wide through social media? There have been studies that examine if terrorist organizations use social media for these aspects but none have put them together or examined these advantages to social media and how effective they are. I will do this by showing the ways terrorist organizations have changed they way they achieve their missions and pointing out how there are patterns between their use of social media and how it effects what they are trying to
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A tactic that underpins terrorist group's success is to blend in with the local populace. Terrorists wear no distinguishable uniforms. Use false identities. Hide from view inside protected sanctuaries such as mosques. As stated by a leading researcher and scholar on internet use by terrorists, “With over 1.4 billion persons on the internet… it is not surprising to find terrorists among that population” (Denning 2010, 1). Terrorist groups use the internet and other modern technologies for various reasons. By means as video, text and images terrorists will for example, learn, communicate and conduct business (Denning 2010, 1-2). Malign actors use cell phones, the internet and video recorders for a wide range of activities to train, issue propaganda and to conduct reconnaissance among other purposes according to a recent Rand study. (Don et al., 2007, 9).
The future of America is definitely affected by terrorism and terrorism has benefited from the new technologies that aid and speed up communication around the world. Terrorists can use tactics that they know and manipulate advanced technologies such as the internet. These technological advantages have certainly improved the capabilities of terrorist groups to plan and accomplish their operations. It also offers these terrorists the ability to affect communities faster and much more intensely than earlier terrorists. In order to reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, in regards to their threats, strategies and tactics, when dealing with the internet, a complete understanding of the nature of America’s enemies is necessary.
The topic of my paper is types of terrorism. There are several types of terrorism for which to choose for my paper, state, dissident, religious, left-wing v. right-wing, and international. In this paper I have chosen state terrorism, religious terrorism, and international terrorism as the types of terrorism that I am going to discuss. I will discuss what they are in my own words and give examples of two different groups for each type that represent that type of terrorism. Then I will compare and contrast the three types of terrorism that I chose.
And finally let’s talk about how social media has an impact on gangs plans and their activities. With the help of social media, people can help stop gang plans for violent crimes by catching a possible tweet or an Instagram post. They can catch it and report it to the police before anything comes to fruition. Instead, it is being used as an advantage to the gangs as they are setting plans to do their crimes through social media websites like Twitter.
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Discuss the relationship between terrorist organizations and the raising of, transfer of, and use of funds.?
From 2013 to now, ISIS has been behind over 143 terror attacks worldwide. The influence of ISIS is observed worldwide with combatants, ideological supporters, and financial supporters from all over the globe and they gain more power and influence with each attack that they carry out. These factors aid in identifying ISIS as an international, transnational, and religious terrorist
The concept of terrorism is exceedingly difficult to define. Author Gerald Seymour first said in his book Harry’s Game that, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”. Each individual may view terrorism in a different light. Because of this, there is currently no universal definition of terrorism. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly more important to form a definition of terrorism, especially while working in the media.
However, they do not have a focus niche of its targeted supporters, their media output productions were commonly for general viewer; domestic-male-Muslim-adult-friendly (Jabareen 2014: 53), and not being attractive to the other demographic of people such as non-middle-east citizens, women, less-or-non-practice Muslim and youth. In fact, to join these older armed group, they have certain criteria to be met such as “have some knowledge of Salafi Islam, a certain level of physical fitness and some military potential (Kilkullen 2015: 72)” and many more which makes these groups only appeal to some niche of demographic. In contrast, ISIS media strategy is an evolution of these groups media strategy. ISIS uses social media to reach different demographic of people and have less strict criteria for anyone to join them accept one must be a Muslim (Kilkullen 2015: 72). Consequently, one of the highest demographic that are trying to join ISIS is young women, which is a shock for everyone (Kilkullen 2015: 71). Hence, the evolution is clear here, ISIS strategy in using social media is to reach wider different niche of people, while the older non-state armed generally target only certain group of
Additionally we are getting an increased of communications thru cell phones, emails and more inetrnet organizations to expand their reach around the world. The rise of this social medias have been dramaticallly increased their capacity to connect and sell stole properties for example personal identities and credit cards and generate a big amount of incomes thru fraud systems, regarding the terroris groups social media has become a valuable tool to recruit and know new members, this is an important factor of this organizations and a big threat such as the one we have recently experience like the Boston Marathon or how ISIS recruit their members or how they communicate each other their
The term “cyber terrorism” refers to the use of the Internet as a medium in which an attack can be launched such as hacking into electrical grids, security systems, and vital information networks. Over the past four decades, cyber terrorists have been using the Internet as an advanced communication tool in which to quickly spread and organize their members and resources. For instance, by using the instantaneous spread of information provided by the Internet, several terrorist’s groups have been able to quickly share information, coordinate attacks, spread propaganda, raise funds, and find new recruits for their cause. Instantaneous and unpredictable, the technological advantages these terrorists have obtained from using the Internet includes
The Arab Spring has impacted multiple countries in northern Africa and the Arab world so far since the end of December 2010, leading to the fall of the government in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Among the unarmed insurrections, social media and social networking technology functioned as a new strategy that empowered the protesters to gain successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and inspired grassroots movements in other Arab countries. The new media, namely Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, with online blogs and mobile telecommunications, played a significant role in the politics of connectivity, which connect, coordinate and communicate the protestors. Labeled as “Twitter Revolution” or “Facebook Revolution”, the new media to some extent engaged in the Arab Spring uprisings. By analyzing more than three million tweets on Twitter, content on YouTube and thousands of blog posts, a study led by analysts from the University of Washington finds that social media played a critical role in shaping political debates in the movements during the Arab Spring.
Technology has come a long ways from its existence till today. In today’s modern world, people are surrounded by technology everywhere. In the present, people are surrounded by disrupting technologies every day. Today innovators are always creating new technologies that will make an impact on the daily lives of millions. Technology has made the lives of many people easier. The influence of technology has made an impact on social media. Social media has impacted the society in many ways. Whether it is the life of an individual to how successful a company is going to be. Social media is not just about tweeting about what you just accomplished or instagraming what food you are about to eat at a very nice restaurant. The uses of social media is way broader. Now most social media companies are buying out and merging with many other companies that will be off use to them. The people of society has certainly come from a long way. Social media is influencing consumers in what they are going to buy next. Social media is helping businesses to become more aware of their impact they have on they customers. Social media has a big presence for an individual and a business. This research paper is going to be over how social media impacts an individual. Then it is going to be about how much of an impact it has on businesses. Afterwards it is going to go over the pros and the cons of social media in society. Then this research paper is going to conclude on where social media is heading towards in the near future and so on.
Terrorism is one of the most extensively discussed issues of our time and at the same time it is also one of the least understood. The term itself “terrorism” means many different things to different people, cultures, and races. As a result, trying to define or classify terrorism with one universal definition is nearly impossible. The definition of terrorism used in this research is a reflection of much of the Western and American way of defining it. The definition of terrorism is,