Davies, G., Bouchard, M., Wu, E., Joffres, K., & Frank, R. (2015). Terrorist and extremist organizations’ use of the Internet for recruitment. In M. Bouchard (Ed.), Social networks, terrorism and counter-terrorism: Radical and connected (pp. 105-127). New York, NY: Routledge Publishing.

While recruitment is central to the viability of all groups, the process itself is not necessarily consistent across groups. The purpose of this study is to examine the manner in which and the extent to which terrorist and extremist groups use the Internet for the purpose of recruitment. Based on the two dimensions of intensity of recruitment efforts and level of manifest extremism, this analysis of official websites presents a novel typology of website recruitment comprised of four categories: know us please, support us because, join us now, and act now with us.


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