The caliphate is not a tweet away: The social media experience of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

dc.contributor.author	Torres-Soriano M.R.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-02T22:29:21Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-02T22:29:21Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier	10.1080/1057610X.2016.1159430
dc.identifier.citation	39, 11, 968-981
dc.identifier.issn	1057610X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12728/6423
dc.description	This article offers a descriptive analysis of the propaganda activities of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Internet social media. It examines the group’s propaganda actions from its creation in 1998 until the end of 2015 and argues that the use of social media, Twitter in particular, has failed to offer any real remedy to its mediocre propaganda actions. During the period in which its Twitter profiles were active, the organization continued to manifest the same problems, including a shortage of qualified human resources and poor internal coordination, which had prevented it from engaging in efficient propaganda activity previously. The study of the social media experience of the group offers further evidence of the vulnerabilities of this Maghrebi jihadist organization. © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis Inc.
dc.title	The caliphate is not a tweet away: The social media experience of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
dc.type	Article

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