Abstrakt: | The article gives general characterisation of the ways in which these
organizations use modern communication technologies. Currently, every major
terrorist organisation maintain robust media wings, which focus on producing
videos, publishing magazines and sharing them with the public via the Web. The
empirical system of reference is based on the activity of al-Qaeda, her franchise
AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and ISIS (the so-called Islamic State).
While analysing the media of terrorist organisations, the Lasswell model was applied.
This formula is a standard research procedure used for investigating acts of
communication by answering the questions: who, says what, in which channel,
to whom, with what effect?. The author also present typology of videos produced
by jihadist organisations, characterised the most important and active media actions
of terrorist organisations and a typology of recipients of such messages.
The article presents a number of reasons why the Internet has become such an
important tool for terrorists. |