Maura Conway - Islamic State’s Online Strategy: Then and Now
Channel: IIEA
Date: 2017-05-17

About the Speech:
Use of the Internet, particularly social media, by violent extremists, terrorists and their supporters is a source of anxiety for policymakers and publics. In her address, Dr Conway detailed the development of IS’s online strategy from 2014 to the present, with a particular focus on online-offline connections and the ‘social’ aspects of social media. She also examined the contemporary disruption of social media companies by IS’s online activity and its effectiveness. 

About the Speaker:

Dr Maura Conway is Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) and Coordinator of VOX-Pol, a EU-funded project on violent online political extremism (voxpol.eu). Dr Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, including academic and media discourses on cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremist online content, and violent online radicalisation.