TY - GEN
T1 - Examining Botnet Behaviors for Propaganda Dissemination
T2 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015
AU - Al-Khateeb, Samer
AU - Agarwal, Nitin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/1/29
Y1 - 2016/1/29
N2 - Since the dissemination of the first beheading video by the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) of its hostage James Foley (an American journalist), this practice has become increasingly common. Videos of ISIL beheading their hostages in orange jumpsuits swarmed over social media as they swept across Iraq. By showing such shocking videos and images, ISIL is able to spread their opinions and create emotional attitudes for their followers. Through a sophisticated social media strategy and strategic use of botnets, ISIL is succeeding in its propaganda dissemination. ISIL is using social media as a tool to conduct recruitment and radicalization campaigns and raise funds. In this study, we examine the reasons for creating such videos grounded in the literature from cultural anthropology, transnationalism and religious identity, and media & communication. Toward this direction, we collect data from Twitter for the beheadings done by ISIL, especially the Egyptian Copts, the Arab-Israeli «Spy», and the Ethiopian Christians. The study provides insights into the way ISIL uses social media (especially Twitter) to disseminate propaganda and develop a framework to identify sociotechnical behavioral patterns from social and computational science perspective.
AB - Since the dissemination of the first beheading video by the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) of its hostage James Foley (an American journalist), this practice has become increasingly common. Videos of ISIL beheading their hostages in orange jumpsuits swarmed over social media as they swept across Iraq. By showing such shocking videos and images, ISIL is able to spread their opinions and create emotional attitudes for their followers. Through a sophisticated social media strategy and strategic use of botnets, ISIL is succeeding in its propaganda dissemination. ISIL is using social media as a tool to conduct recruitment and radicalization campaigns and raise funds. In this study, we examine the reasons for creating such videos grounded in the literature from cultural anthropology, transnationalism and religious identity, and media & communication. Toward this direction, we collect data from Twitter for the beheadings done by ISIL, especially the Egyptian Copts, the Arab-Israeli «Spy», and the Ethiopian Christians. The study provides insights into the way ISIL uses social media (especially Twitter) to disseminate propaganda and develop a framework to identify sociotechnical behavioral patterns from social and computational science perspective.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDMW.2015.41
DO - 10.1109/ICDMW.2015.41
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964767134
T3 - Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015
SP - 51
EP - 57
BT - Proceedings - 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop, ICDMW 2015
A2 - Wu, Xindong
A2 - Tuzhilin, Alexander
A2 - Xiong, Hui
A2 - Dy, Jennifer G.
A2 - Aggarwal, Charu
A2 - Zhou, Zhi-Hua
A2 - Cui, Peng
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 14 November 2015 through 17 November 2015
ER -