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TERRORIST PROPAGANDA IN ALBANIAN LANGUAGE ON YOUTUBE: CHANGES IN PATTERNS AND NARRATIVES 2013-2018
No full textThe new and fast-developing Internet-based social networking environment has become particularly attractive to terrorists. Social networking sites not only provide a cheaper, better and easier way to spread terrorist content online, but also enable terrorists to address their target public directly and in real time if necessary. In the period 2012-2013 ISIL and other terrorist organizations have had an unusual success in convincing a relatively large number of Albanians, over 100 individuals from Albania and over 300 others from the neighboring Kosovo (and several hundred from other Balkan countries), to join its fighting ranks and territories in Syria and Iraq. YouTube and Facebook have been the main online platforms where terrorist narratives in Albanian were disseminated in search for potential recruits and continued radicalization. In a research conducted in 2013 (Zoto, 2015) I provided a simple method for research on social media, a contained sample and relevant data for measuring propaganda success factors of terrorist propaganda in the Albanian language on YouTube. The sample was researched again in early 2018 and new data was collected with the aim to explore and observe the YouTube-based terrorist propaganda developments over the concept of jihad in terms of content, characteristics of message providers and receptiveness by the target audience in 2018, but also the change in the patterns by comparing new data with the data collected from the 2013 research. The findings from this research are presented in this article.Furthermore, this article describes counter terrorist and counter radicalization initiatives and developments in the Albanian society in the period 2013-2018.Keywords: Albanian, terrorism, social media, You Tube, ISIL, ISIS, Albania, Kosovo, Balkans, Syria, Iraq, Jihad, online radicalization, metrics, social network analysis
Failure and success of jihadi information operations on the Internet
Full text linkObscure entities, individuals, and organizations engaged in jihad have made the Internet their most powerful tool for conducting information operations. Internet outlets, especially social networking sites, provide jihadis with access to the whole world. At the same time, the current Internet environment allows sustainable research about the uses of these resources for the cause of jihad, and simultaneously provides new opportunities to counterterrorist agencies. This thesis proposes an artisanal approach to analyze jihadism on the Internet. Specifically, by identifying prominent jihadi leaders recommendations on the spread of the call to jihad by fellow jihadis, we set up assumptions on what potentially makes jihadi information operations on social networking sites successful. Sets of data publicly available on the Internet and within the most popular social networking sites are identified and framed in line with the jihadi leadership recommendations. A case study and related data are gathered and analyzed to test these assumptions. The results of the analysis may enable researchers to speed data collection by identifying only potentially successful jihadi presences on the Web, and allow counterterrorist bodies to target jihadi Web spaces efficiently. The thesis also provides a background on jihadi approaches to public relations, an empirical analysis of terrorists challenges and counterterrorists opportunities on the Internet, a case study and a methodology for analyzing jihadism on the most visited social networking sites.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Captain, Armed Forces of the Republic of Albaniahttp://archive.org/details/failurendsuccess109453904
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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