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Antonio,<br><br>
Thanks for your response. A few texts that might prove useful:<br><br>
<i>American Behavioral Scientist</i>, Vol. 45, No. 6 (Special issues
devoted to 'Cyberterrorism in the 21st Century,' ed. Harvey
Kushner).<br><br>
Maura Conway, 'Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist 'Use' of the
Internet,'<i>First Monday</i>, Vol. 7, No. 11 (November 2002),
<a href="http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/conway/index.html">http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/conway/index.html</a>.<br>
[Have a glance through the <i>FirstMonday </i>archive, I know you'll find
other relevant stuff]<br><br>
Technical Analysis Group, <i>Examining the Cyber Capabilities of Islamic
Terrorist Groups</i> (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire: Institute for
Security Technology, 2003),
<a href="https://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/TAG/ITB/ITB_032004.pdf">https://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/TAG/ITB/ITB_032004.pdf</a>.<br><br>
Gabriel Weimann,
<a href="http://www.terror.net/" eudora="autourl"><i>WWW.Terror.Net</a>:
How Modern Terrorism Uses the Internet</i> (Washington, DC: United States
Institute of Peace, 2004),
<a href="http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.html">http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.html</a>.
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Maura Conway, 'Cybercortical Warfare: The Case of Hizbollah.org,'
<i>European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of
Workshops</i>, Edinburgh, March 28 - April 2, 2003,
<a href="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</a>.<br><br>
Brigitte Nacos, <i>Mass-Mediated Terrorism: The Central Role of the Media
in Terrorism and Counterterrorism</i> (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield,
2002), Ch. 4.<br><br>
Yariv Tsfati and Gabriel Weimann,
'<a href="http://www.terrorism.com/" eudora="autourl">WWW.Terrorism.Com</a>:
Terror on the Internet,'<i>Studies in Conflict and Terrorism</i>, Vol 25,
No. 5 (September-October 2002). <br><br>
Michael Whine, 'Cyberspace: A New Medium for Communication, Command, and
Control by Extremists,'<i>Studies in Conflict and Terrorism</i> Vol. 22,
No. 3 (August 1999), pp. 231-245; <br><br>
Michael Whine, 'Islamist Organisations on the Internet,'<i>Terrorism and
Political Violence</i> Vol. 11, No. 1 (1999), pp. 123-132.<br><br>
Good luck with your research,<br>
Maura<br><br>
<br>
At 13:58 09/06/2004 +0200, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear Aoirs<br><br>
far from me the idea to start a flame in the list with my previous post.
But <br>
let me please, now, add just two words and try to answer to<br>
Lee Salter and Maura Conway (thank you for the references, first of
all)<br>
1. In my post I quoted two _random_ links (I have a bookmark full
of three <br>
hundred sites at least, which is a good sample i think) only to
give a <br>
general idea of the work I have planned. Of course I have bookmarked
"Israeli <br>
hate organisations" too. To name one, Internet Haganah, where you
can find a <br>
sentence like that: "I have suggestion for what to do with Zarqawi
in the <br>
event he is taken alive. It has to do with a couple of tractors and
some<br>
long chains. I leave it as an exercise for the readear to figure out the
<br>
details".<br>
2. Please believe me that I will "try balance", as Lee wrote
and a researcher <br>
should always do. "This smacks of one-sidedness", Lee
said.<br>
Well, Lee, let's take for granted that we both and all the members of
this <br>
list are trained researcher and do the best to publish "sine
ira<br>
ac studio" results (to quote the old Max Weber).<br>
3. I call the groups fighting in Middle East "terrorist". Ok.
Maybe it's a <br>
mistake (too value-oriented term). "Groups which have<br>
individualized war" (I borrow this term from Ulrich Beck) is
acceptable ? Hope <br>
so.<br>
4. As I wrote in my previous post, I am _starting_ a new research.
I omitted <br>
to say that I have planned to study Hooligans' Web Sites too<br>
(there are a lot over here in Europe). Do have Hooligan's, Neonazi's and
<br>
Groups which..ect' s Sites something in common ? I would say: yes.<br>
They share the language of violence. Is it enough to say that ? No, of
course. <br>
The scientific question (at least to me) is: why these Sites<br>
and the people who run them speak the language of violence ? Now: when
you ask <br>
"Why ?" you have two choices. You can try to answer
looking<br>
at the causes. Or you can try to answer looking at the aims. I am a
<br>
sociologist. I am not a political scientist nor a political
activist.<br>
So I have only a choice: looking at the aims. From this point of view -
this <br>
is to answer to Maura - it's enough to spend a couple of<br>
hours "diving" through the three kind of sites to see that they
are absolutely <br>
different (as you said: "in<br>
terms of appearance, functioning, effectiveness, etc"). But: shall I
repeat <br>
that I am at the first step of my research, that I use the label<br>
"Hate on the Net" only to give a general idea of what i am
doing, I didn't <br>
want to post a whole essay about the research design, and
just<br>
asked about some references ? That's all.<br><br>
Regards to all<br><br>
Ciao<br><br>
Antonio<br>
-- <br>
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous"<br>
David Bradley, 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' inventor.<br><br>
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