The Impact Of Digital Communication On Conflict And Change

Question 1

Lesaca

Answer 1

Fight against ISIS rebels power of social media
Audiovisual strategy an ISIS in social media has resulted in the radicalisation process of a terrorist . The terrorists of Paris committed the attack because they watched ISIS videos in the internet.
The Department of state has published more than 300 videos on YouTube that counter the violent and extremist messages of racial jihadist groups on social media . The campaign was promoted through six different twitter accounts specialising in countering ISIS in social media

Question 2

Howard

Answer 2

Christian fundamentalist groups were using the internet as a key role to promote their ideologies. He found that a virtual church was built around those who embraced common ideologies and his study Digital Jesus shows how like minded people created a large web of communication on the internet . This saw the creation of new types of religious movements without a central leader

Question 3

Sutton , Palen and Scklovski

Answer 3

Also acknowledge that new forms of digital communications are becoming increasingly important when aiming to deal with disasters . They carried out research during Southern California Wildfires in 2007 and found that the use of new digital communications helped to pass on community information . They argue that this is impacting on the way in which institutions and organisations respond to disasters