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.
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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