The Impact of Social Media on Terrorism Threat
While the enormous amount of money is spent on the complicacy of the communication and social contact of terrorist and malicious organizations, the hazardous workaround exists. The social media facilitates coordination of terrorists and the public excuse of their conducts, which enhances the threat of terror.
The studies show that social media gives terroristic threat the ability to expand geographically, making it more flexible. Marcu and Balteanu argue that social media has become the primary tool of the organized terrorism. Their research shows that social networking sites are the safe, convenient, and accessible tool for connection, which forces more and more malicious groups to move into the Internet. Marcy and Balteanu reveal that more than 90 percent of the Internet-enabled terrorists use social networking platforms, which make such media extremely hazardous in the context of the threat.
The terrorists, moreover, use the persuading peculiarities of social media to engage the audience and excuse their action. The research pursued by Klausen argues that people perceive the streams and live reports of jihadists as authentic and original content as they associate such media participation with their lifestyle, which includes the spontaneous contribution to the social networks. However, the findings state that terrorist organization usually centralize the distribution of the information, which implicates the malicious propaganda. Therefore, the social media aggravate the threat of the terrorism as the criminals use them to apologize their misconducts.
The scientific findings state that social media can be used as a tool for the intensification of the threat of terrorism. More specifically, the criminals use social networking websites as a tool of communication that allows them to overcome the geographical and physical limitations. They do also use the persuasive influence of social media to justify their acts. Therefore, the threat of terrorism should be expanded to the social media context.
Works Cited
Klausen, Jytte. "Tweeting Thejihad: Social Media Networks Of Western Foreign Fighters In Syria And Iraq". Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 38, no. 1 (2014): 1-22.
Marcu, Mihaela, and Cristina Balteanu. "SOCIAL MEDIA-A REAL SOURCE OF PROLIFERATION OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM". Annales Universitatis Apulensis: Series Oeconomica; Alba Iulia 16, no. 1 (2014): …
