Terrorists on the web: an interview to Alessandro Orsini
July 17, 2017
In this interview made exclusively for LUISS Open Alessandro Orsini analyses the strategies of terror online, what kind of tool the internet is for terrorists and how terrorist organizations attract new followers online by allowing the reconstruction of fragmented social identities.
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