Awards

• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015 (United States)

Overview

"Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 This volume examines ""jihadi"" content on the Internet by drawing on both Arabic and English primary source materials. After examining this content as digital media, the work looks at how it is productively consumed by online communities, including how ""jihadi"" individuals construct themselves online and how jihadism is practiced and represented as an online activity. The work also discusses the consumption of such jihadi media by those who are hostile to radical Islam and the relation between fantasy, pleasure, ideology, and ordinary life. This unique survey features case studies, such as the cyberjihadi ""Irhabi 007,"" pro-US and Israeli ""patriots"" who are often openly Islamophobic, and ""Infovlad"" --a forum that became the meeting place for radical Islamists and radical freelance ""counter terrorists."" This innovative approach to studying violent content on the Internet is a significant contribution to the literature that will appeal to anyone interested in political violence, terrorism, and political communication."

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This comprehensive, forensic analysis of 'Jihadi' content on the Internet is of great help in understanding and assessing the related security threat. Gilbert Ramsay makes a compelling case for drawing a clear distinction between on-line and off-line activity. He looks deeply into the nature of 'salafi-jihadist' material on the web, and offers an interesting and novel take on the possible drivers behind its production and consumption. Richard Barrett, former head of the United Nations Working Group on The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes In view of the recent Boston marathon bombings in the US and public murder of a serving British soldier in Woolwich UK, this book is a timely reminder of the necessity to further examine and narrow the debate regarding the potentially devastating effects of online violent radicalization. This authoritative research and analysis is important for policy makers and practitioners alike, particularly in view their tendency to introduce potential knee-jerk legislation that risks infringing upon individual laws that extend to private access and use of the Internet. This book provides a nuanced perspective of the issues related to online radicalization, addressing the over emphasis and inconsistencies that have unfortunately plagued this particular field of study. Dr. Abdul Haqq Baker, former chairman of Brixton Mosque, UK, founder and director of STREET UK and author of Extremists in Our Midst: Confronting Terror (2011)

This comprehensive, forensic analysis of 'Jihadi' content on the Internet is of great help in understanding and assessing the related security threat. Gilbert Ramsay makes a compelling case for drawing a clear distinction between on-line and off-line activity. He looks deeply into the nature of 'salafi-jihadist' material on the web, and offers an interesting and novel take on the possible drivers behind its production and consumption. Richard Barrett, former head of the United Nations Working Group on The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes This is a refreshing, distinctive and fascinating book. Gilbert Ramsay takes us a major step forward in terms of how we can and should think about the role the internet plays in modern terrorism. Andrew Silke, Director of Terrorism Studies, University of East London School of Law and Social Sciences, UK In view of the recent Boston marathon bombings in the US and public murder of a serving British soldier in Woolwich UK, this book is a timely reminder of the necessity to further examine and narrow the debate regarding the potentially devastating effects of online violent radicalization. This authoritative research and analysis is important for policy makers and practitioners alike, particularly in view their tendency to introduce potential knee-jerk legislation that risks infringing upon individual laws that extend to private access and use of the Internet. This book provides a nuanced perspective of the issues related to online radicalization, addressing the over emphasis and inconsistencies that have unfortunately plagued this particular field of study. Dr. Abdul Haqq Baker, former chairman of Brixton Mosque, UK, founder and director of STREET UK and author of Extremists in Our Midst: Confronting Terror (2011) Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Ramsay's text is a fresh and distinctive contribution to debates on the intersections of terrorism and the Internet and is thus recommended. Acting as an antidote to media and policymakers' assumptions that 'the Internet' is 'responsible' for much contemporary terrorism, his analysis is critical in the best sense: thoughtfully critiquing the literature produced in this area to-date and grappling with its inconsistencies. The embedding of online jihadism as a particular (sub-)cultural practice consistent with contemporary cultural and new media theory, is an additional noteworthy aspect of the analysis. Maura Conway, Dublin City University, Ireland

This comprehensive, forensic analysis of 'Jihadi' content on the Internet is of great help in understanding and assessing the related security threat. Gilbert Ramsay makes a compelling case for drawing a clear distinction between on-line and off-line activity. He looks deeply into the nature of 'salafi-jihadist' material on the web, and offers an interesting and novel take on the possible drivers behind its production and consumption. Richard Barrett, former head of the United Nations Working Group on The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes This is a refreshing, distinctive and fascinating book. Gilbert Ramsay takes us a major step forward in terms of how we can and should think about the role the internet plays in modern terrorism. Andrew Silke, Director of Terrorism Studies, University of East London School of Law and Social Sciences, UK In view of the recent Boston marathon bombings in the US and public murder of a serving British soldier in Woolwich UK, this book is a timely reminder of the necessity to further examine and narrow the debate regarding the potentially devastating effects of online violent radicalization. This authoritative research and analysis is important for policy makers and practitioners alike, particularly in view of their tendency to introduce potential knee-jerk legislation that risks infringing upon individual laws that extend to private access and use of the Internet. This book provides a nuanced perspective of the issues related to online radicalization, addressing the over emphasis and inconsistencies that have unfortunately plagued this particular field of study. Dr. Abdul Haqq Baker, former chairman of Brixton Mosque, UK, founder and director of STREET UK and author of Extremists in Our Midst: Confronting Terror (2011) Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Ramsay's text is a fresh and distinctive contribution to debates on the intersections of terrorism and the Internet and is thus recommended. Acting as an antidote to media and policymakers' assumptions that 'the Internet' is 'responsible' for much contemporary terrorism, his analysis is critical in the best sense: thoughtfully critiquing the literature produced in this area to-date and grappling with its inconsistencies. The embedding of online jihadism as a particular (sub-)cultural practice consistent with contemporary cultural and new media theory, is an additional noteworthy aspect of the analysis. Maura Conway, Dublin City University, Ireland

Author Information

Gilbert Ramsay works at the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, UK. An Arabic speaker, he has previously written reports on terrorism and the Internet for the United Nations and the European Union.

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