When Jihadi Ideology Meets Social Media

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities. The authors investigate the use of religion to advance political agendas and the legal challenges involved with balancing regulation with free speech rights. The project also examines the reasons behind the limited success of leading initiatives to curb the surge of online extreme speech, such as Google's Redirect Method or the U.S. State Department's campaign called Think Again. The volume concludes by outlining a number of promising technical approaches that can potently empower tech companies to reduce religious extremist groups' presence and impact on social media.

Marks one of the first systematic studies to address why radical groups are so good at using social media Offers a thorough study of the influence and the control of Salafi Jihadists of Arabic language social media Proposes countermeasures that subsist without violating fundamental rights such as free speech and freedom of religion Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Jamil Ammar is Visiting Scholar at Rutgers Law School-Newark, USA.
Songhua Xu is Assistant Professor in the Information System department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhalt
1: Who Speaks for Islam? Extreme Religious Groups, the Exception that Proves the Rule.- 2: The Rise of Religious Extremism in the Middle East: A Triptych View?.- 3: Extreme Groups and the Militarization of Social Media.- 4: Extreme Groups Propaganda War under a Free Speech Lens: The Unwinnable Battle.- 5: Technology to the Rescue: A Software-Based Approach to Tackle Extreme Speech.