When Jihadi Ideology Meets Social Media [Hardcover]

This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities. The authors investigate the use of religion to advance political agendas and the legal challenges involved with balancing regulation with free speech rights. The project also examines the reasons behind the limited success of leading initiatives to curb the surge of online extreme speech, such as Googles Redirect Method or the U.S. State Departments campaign called Think Again. The volume concludes by outlining a number of promising technical approaches that can potently empower tech companies to reduce religious extremist groups presence and impact on social media.

Chapter One:  Who Speaks for Islam? Extreme Religious Groups, the Exception that Proves the Rule

Chapter Two: The Rise of Religious Extremism in the Middle East:  A Triptych View?

Chapter Three: Extreme Groups and the Militarization of Social Media

Chapter Four:  Extreme Groups Propaganda War under a Free Speech Lens: The Unwinnable Battle

Chapter Five: Technology to the Rescue: A Software-Based Approach to Tackle Extreme Speech

Songhua Xu is Assistant Professor in the Information System department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.