04315nam 22006975 450 991059503590332120240923205846.09783031070716303107071210.1007/978-3-031-07071-6(CKB)5840000000091670(MiAaPQ)EBC7102158(Au-PeEL)EBL7102158(DE-He213)978-3-031-07071-6(EXLCZ)99584000000009167020220923d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDiscussing the Islamic State on Twitter /by Matteo Colombo, Luigi Curini1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (160 pages)Middle East Today,2945-7025Includes index.9783031070709 3031070704 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The research methodology -- Chapter 3: Detecting the Sentiment towards IS and its evolution -- Chapter 4: A thematic study of the topics in the pro-IS and anti-IS tweets -- Chapter 5: The enemy of my enemy? Hostility and sectarian discourse between pro-IS and anti-IS Arabic-speaking Twitter users -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature. The authors provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the Arabic discourse on IS, encompassing all phases of the Caliphate's political evolution, from the apogee of the Islamic State in October 2014 to the loss of its unofficial capital of Raqqa in September 2017. Taking into account key events, the book also considers the most recurrent topics for IS and its opponents who engage in the Twitter conversation. The analysis is based on around 29 million tweets written in the Arabic language, representing a random sample of around one-third of all Arabic tweets referring to IS over the 2014-2017 timeframe. Matteo Colombo is Junior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands, and Associate Research Fellow in the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He obtained a PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. His main interests are in social media, political reforms, jihadism, and energy policy in the Middle East. Luigi Curini is Professor in Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. His research focuses on party competition, comparative politics, quantitative methods, machine learning and text analytics. He has published over 50 articles in international academic peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, among others. He is also author of seven books and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations (with Robert J. Franzese, 2020).Middle East Today,2945-7025Middle EastPolitics and governmentCommunication in politicsTerrorismPolitical violenceSocial mediaMiddle Eastern PoliticsPolitical CommunicationTerrorism and Political ViolenceSocial MediaMiddle EastPolitics and government.Communication in politics.Terrorism.Political violence.Social media.Middle Eastern Politics.Political Communication.Terrorism and Political Violence.Social Media.297.14297.272Colombo Matteo743464Curini LuigiMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910595035903321Discussing the Islamic State on Twitter3018474UNINA