[Air-l] Re: When I'll be in jail....

[Maura Conway]

Antonio,

Thanks for your response. A few texts that might prove useful:

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 45, No. 6 (Special issues devoted to 
'Cyberterrorism in the 21st Century,' ed. Harvey Kushner).

Maura Conway, 'Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist 'Use' of the 
Internet,'First Monday, Vol. 7, No. 11 (November 2002), 
<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/conway/index.html>http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/conway/index.html.
[Have a glance through the FirstMonday archive, I know you'll find other 
relevant stuff]

Technical Analysis Group, Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic 
Terrorist Groups (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire: Institute for Security 
Technology, 2003), 
<https://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/TAG/ITB/ITB_032004.pdf>https://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/TAG/ITB/ITB_032004.pdf.

Gabriel Weimann, WWW.Terror.Net: How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet 
(Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 
2004), 
<http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.html>http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.html. 


Maura Conway, 'Cybercortical Warfare: The Case of Hizbollah.org,' European 
Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops, 
Edinburgh, March 28 - April 2, 2003, 
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/edinburgh/ws20/Conway.pdf>http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/paperarchive/edinburgh/ws20/Conway.pdf.

Brigitte Nacos, Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media in 
Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), Ch. 4.

Yariv Tsfati and Gabriel Weimann, 'WWW.Terrorism.Com: Terror on the 
Internet,'Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol 25, No. 5 
(September-October 2002).

Michael Whine, 'Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command, and 
Control by Extremists,'Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 22, No. 3 
(August 1999), pp. 231-245;

Michael Whine, 'Islamist Organisations on the Internet,'Terrorism and 
Political Violence Vol. 11, No. 1 (1999), pp. 123-132.

Good luck with your research,
Maura


At 13:58 09/06/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Aoirs
>
>far from me the idea to start a flame in the list with my previous post. But
>let me please, now, add just two words and try to answer to
>Lee Salter and Maura Conway (thank you for the references, first of all)
>1. In my post I quoted two _random_  links (I have a bookmark full of three
>hundred sites at least, which is a good sample i think)  only to give a
>general idea of the work I have planned. Of course I have bookmarked "Israeli
>hate organisations" too. To name one, Internet Haganah, where you can find a
>sentence like that: "I have suggestion for what to do with Zarqawi in the
>event he is taken alive. It has to do with a couple of tractors and some
>long chains. I leave it as an exercise for the readear to figure out the
>details".
>2. Please believe me that I will "try balance", as Lee wrote and a researcher
>should always do. "This smacks of one-sidedness", Lee said.
>Well, Lee, let's take for granted that we both and all the members of this
>list are trained researcher and do the best to publish "sine ira
>ac studio" results (to quote the old Max Weber).
>3. I call the groups fighting in Middle East "terrorist". Ok. Maybe it's a
>mistake (too value-oriented term). "Groups which have
>individualized war" (I borrow this term from Ulrich Beck) is acceptable ? 
>Hope
>so.
>4. As I wrote in my previous post, I am _starting_  a new research. I omitted
>to say that I have planned to study Hooligans' Web Sites too
>(there are a lot over here in Europe). Do have Hooligan's, Neonazi's and
>Groups which..ect' s Sites something in common ? I would say: yes.
>They share the language of violence. Is it enough to say that ? No, of 
>course.
>The scientific question (at least to me) is: why these Sites
>and the people who run them speak the language of violence ? Now: when you 
>ask
>"Why ?" you have two choices. You can try to answer looking
>at the causes. Or you can try to answer looking at the aims. I am a
>sociologist. I am not a political scientist nor a political activist.
>So I have only a choice: looking at the aims. From this point of view - this
>is to answer to Maura - it's enough to spend a couple of
>hours "diving" through the three kind of sites to see that they are 
>absolutely
>different (as you said: "in
>terms of appearance, functioning, effectiveness, etc"). But: shall I repeat
>that I am at the first step of my research, that I use the label
>"Hate on the Net" only to give a general idea of what i am doing, I didn't
>want to post a whole essay about the research design, and  just
>asked about some references ? That's all.
>
>Regards to all
>
>Ciao
>
>Antonio
>--
>"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous"
>David Bradley, 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' inventor.
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Maura Conway
Teaching Fellow
School of International Relations
University of St. Andrews
St Andrews KY16 9AL
Scotland

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