A multi-region empirical study on the internet presence of global extremist organizations

Abstract Extremist organizations are heavily utilizing Internet technologies to increase their abilities to influence the world. Studying those global extremist organizations’ Internet presence would allow us to better understand extremist organizations’ technical sophistication and their propaganda plans. In this work, we explore an integrated approach for collecting and analyzing extremist Internet presence. We employed automatic Web crawling techniques to build a comprehensive international extremist Web collection. We then used a systematic content analysis tool called the Dark Web Attribute System to analyze and compare these extremist organizations’ Internet usage from three perspectives: technical sophistication, content richness, and Web

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: ISF
• Authors: Jialun Qin, Yilu Zhou, Hsinchun Chen
• Keywords: Abstract Extremist Organizations, Extremist Organizations, ISF 2011, Natural Language Processing, Technical Sophistication