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Digital world war : Islamists, extremists, and the fight for cyber supremacy /

Haroon Ullah investigates the unprecedented impact of social media across the Middle East, north Africa and south and southeast Asia and demonstrates how it has profoundly changed relationships between regimes and peoples, and within populations, mostly, but not always, for the better. He considers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ullah, Haroon K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017].
Subjects:
Social media > Political aspects > Islamic countries.
Internet > Political aspects > Islamic countries.
Political participation > Islamic countries.
Subversive activities > Islamic countries.
Islamic countries > Politics and government.
HISTORY > Modern > 21st Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Middle Eastern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The weaponization of information
  • Just watch me
  • Guerrilla webfare
  • Tracking transformation
  • Civic booty, private gain
  • Faith, dough, and charity
  • Islamists without borders
  • Conclusion: the next battlefield.