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ISIS at Its Apogee: The Arabic Discourse on Twitter and What We Can Learn From That About ISIS Support and Foreign Fighters
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Ceron, Andrea Curini, Luigi Iacus, Stefano M. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | We analyze 26.2 million comments published in Arabic language on Twitter, from July 2014 to January 2015, when Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)’s strength reached its peak and the group was prominently expanding the territorial area under its control. By doing that, we are able to measure the share of support and aversion toward the Islamic State within the online Arab communities. We then investigate two specific topics. First, by exploiting the time granularity of the tweets, we link the opinions with daily events to understand the main determinants of the changing trend in support toward ISIS. Second, by taking advantage of the geographical locations of tweets, we explore the relationship between online opinions across countries and the number of foreign fighters joining ISIS. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244018789229?download=true |
| ISSN | 21582440 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Journal | SAGE Open (SGO) |
| e-ISSN | 21582440 |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244018789229 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2019-03-27 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2019 |
| Subject Keyword | terrorism ISIS foreign fighters Arabic social media sentiment analysis |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Social Sciences |
