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01/12/2015

ISIS : A new threat in the digital age (DIEEEO129-2015)

The advent of the Digital Age has created a new battlefield. Modern technologies have established new methods of confrontation, urging classic war theories to deal with the peculiar characteristics of the 5th domain of war. Among the threats that the cyberspace has to deal with the most worrying one is represented by cyberterrorism and especially by the Cybercaliphate. Some experts believe that ISIS would not have come into existence without the proper use of Internet; as a consequence of its electronic capacities it has gained support worldwide transforming the Web into a possible tool of war.
The present article proposes an analysis of the use of Internet from the terrorist group ISIS, with the purpose of recruitment, propaganda, fundraising and psychological warfare, highlighting as well the differences between terrorist secular groups and contemporary jihadists.

Author: Agnese Carlini

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