Jihadi Culture on the World Wide Web

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 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 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." This innovative approach to studying violent content on the Internet is a significant contribution to the literature that will appeal to anyone interested in political violence, terrorism, and political communication.

About the author

Gilbert Ramsay works at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, UK. An Arabic speaker, he has previously written reports on terrorism and the Internet for the United Nations and the European Union, and has various current and forthcoming publications on the subjects of jihadi-salafism and 'terrorist' use of the Internet.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert Ramsay
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2013
• EAN: 9781441175625
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-7562-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New Directions in Terrorism St; New Directions in Terrorism Studies; New Directions in Terrorism St
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Terrorism, armed struggle, Internet: general works, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities