Religious Internet Networks and Mobilization to Terror
Abstract: The current research is part of a broader investigation into Diaspora Internet communities’ political involvement patterns. The study has compared the Internet content of three religious groups (Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh) with an attempt to reveal specific cultural and religious codes that bring the potential terrorists to use the Internet as a tool for […]
The Impact of Web 2.0 on Public Engagement in the Israeli Home Front
ABSTRACT: The research deals with citizen engagement and public participation in crisis in the Israeli home front, in the era of Web 2.0. Since 2004, Web 2.0 has characterized changes that allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in social networking sites: […]
Developing discourse and tools for alternative content to prevent terror
INTRODUCTION. The inclination of certain parts of the Muslim European population towards devastating terror rhetoric propagated by Al-Qaeda and ISIS and its affiliates requires a close look as to the origins of the inclination and the ways this rhetoric can be dismissed or at least put into contest with more balanced explanations of the reality. […]
Learning Terror trigger textual devices on religious Internet sites
Abstract: The presented paper is a part of a broader research on patterns of political involvement of religious Internet communities. The research proposes that special textual devices, like keywords, semiotic phrases, icons, etc., are activating the first trigger that draws the attention of potential volunteers to take an active act in terror groups. Keywords: terror […]
Development of Defense-Oriented Application Software under Fire: The Case of Israel
Abstract. This paper presents an analysis of the efforts to develop new application software under fire by innovators of the Israeli start-up nation. The applications were developed voluntarily by Israeli civilians living in Tel Aviv during Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012. At the time when the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) was engaged in […]
Databases on Terrorism: Constructing a Database on Hostage-Barricade Terrorism and Abductions
Abstract: This paper presents the database of Hostage-Barricade-Terrorism (HBT) situations and abductions, which were carried out by Palestinian terrorist organizations during the period 1968-1994, against Israeli soldiers and Israeli citizens. The study proposes a new methodology for describing processes adopted in HBT and abduction events. Keywords: Hostage-barricade terrorism (HBT), abductions, Palestinian terrorist organizations, database, ‘hard […]
Analysis of success of mobilization to terror using tools of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
ABSTRACT: The current research is dedicated to putting forward the ways Internet surfers are mobilized for the aims of illegal and harmful actions and even terror. We introduced the usage of a psychological-linguistic approach known as NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) which creates a fast shift in the perception of reality followed by the behavioral change of […]
“Mann Tracht, un Gott Lacht”: A Socio-Technological Outlook in a Disruptive Era
Abstract: Internet (Web 1.0) became part of daily life in the late ’80s; Web 2.0 defines the last 20 years of the 21st century. A new era begins in 2020. It was predicted that Web 3.0 would begin in 2030, but the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated it. How did this happen? Since December 2019 or mid-February […]
Greater is our terror of the unknown: The Diasporic Internet networks and their inference with Global security
Abstract: Regional and international security problems can be understood in more profound way if the research will take into account the relationship between terrorism and new media technologies. If the civilians are exposed to the information and technological revolution, there is no logic to assume that terrorist groups do not share the same benefits and […]