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Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) on Dark Web

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This chapter presents a cyber-archaeology approach to social movement research. The approach overcomes many of the issues of scale and complexity facing social research on the Internet, enabling broad and longitudinal study of the virtual communities supporting social movements. Cultural cyber-artifacts of significance to the social movement are collected and classified using automated techniques, enabling analysis across multiple related virtual communities. Approaches to the analysis of cyber-artifacts are guided by perspectives of social movement theory. A Dark Web case study on a broad group of related IED virtual communities is presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the framework and provide a detailed instantiation of the proposed approach for evaluation.

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Acknowledgments

Funding for this research was provided by (1) NSF, “CRI: Developing a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences,” 2007–2010 and (2) NSF, “EXP-LA: Explosives and IEDs in the Dark Web: Discovery, Categorization, and Analysis,” 2007–2010.

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Chen, H. (2012). Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) on Dark Web. In: Dark Web. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 30. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1557-2_16

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