Overview
- Delves into millions of tweets to offer a longitudinal snapshot of the online Arabic-language discourse surrounding ISIS
- Explores IS' communication in terms of support and most recurrent topics
- Focuses on audience reception/reactions rather than on the content of militant groups
Part of the book series: Middle East Today (MIET)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Matteo Colombo is Junior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands, and Associate Research Fellow in the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He obtained a PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. His main interests are in social media, political reforms, jihadism, and energy policy in the Middle East.
Luigi Curini is Professor in Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. His research focuses on party competition, comparative politics, quantitative methods, machine learning and text analytics. He has published over 50 articles in international academic peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, among others. He is also author of seven books and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations (with Robert J. Franzese, 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discussing the Islamic State on Twitter
Authors: Matteo Colombo, Luigi Curini
Series Title: Middle East Today
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07071-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07070-9Published: 25 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07071-6Published: 23 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-7017
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 154
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Political Communication, Terrorism and Political Violence, Social Media