Terrorism Online ─ Politics, law and technology

"This book investigates the intersection of terrorism, digital technologies and cyberspace. Currently, the evolving academic field of cyber-terrorism is largely dominated by single perspective, technological, political, or sociological, texts. In contrast, Terrorism Online utilises a multi-disciplinary framework to provide a broader introduction to debates and developments that have largely been conducted in isolation to date. Drawing together key academics from a range of disciplinary fields, including Computer Science, Engineering, Social Psychology, International Relations, Law and Politics, the volume focuses on three broad themes: 1) how - and why - do terrorists engage with the Internet, digital technologies and cyberspace?; 2) what threat do thesevarious activities pose, and to whom?; 3) how might these activities be prevented, deterred or responded to? Exploring these themes, the book engages with a range of contemporary case studies and different forms of terrorism: from lone-actor terrorists, protest activities associated with 'hacktivist' groups and state-based terrorism. Through the book's engagement with questions of law, politics, technology and beyond, the volume offers a holistic approach which provides both a unique and valuable contribution to this subject matter. This book will be of interest to students of cyberterrorism, security studies and IR in general"--

Lee Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of East Anglia. He is author of Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror (2009), co-author of Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (2011), and co-editor of Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment, and Response (2014) and Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives (2015).

Stuart Macdonald is an Associate Professor at the College of Law, Swansea University and is co-editor of Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment, and Response (2014).

Thomas M. Chen is Professor in Cyber Security at City University London. He is a co-editor of Cyberterrorism: Understanding, Assessment, and Response (2014); Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications (2008); and Mathematical Foundations for Signal Processing, Communications, and Networking (2011).