Designing a Model for Confronting Media Terrorism Challenges in Social Networks (Case Study: ISIS in Twitter and Facebook)

Abstract

The transition from modern society (production) to postmodern society (consumption) has caused fundamental changes in the structures and processes of global system. Media globalization, privatization and liberalization of the media, and the medicalization of media violence are some examples of postmodern society. Media terrorism in virtual social networking has been born in postmodern society. ISIS as the second generation of global terrorism has made global system security face serious challenges through social networking sites. The crises created by this group through social networks have created a fundamental paradox in liberal democracy. Liberal capitalism, On the one hand, has to protect the basic features of the system such as freedom of expression, political and social freedoms, civil rights and democratic means and ,on the other hand, has to interfere in the private lives of citizens and restrict their freedom and social values to stop the massive wave of terrorism. Research results indicate that controlling terrorism in social networking media still suffers from a lack of a coherent theoretical perspective. In this study, a theoretical model is provided to reduce the challenges posed by terrorism. Research data is collected through purposive sampling from social networking activities of the Islamic State terrorist group in 1394 and also from library documents and is analyzed through documentary and secondary analysis.

Keywords

• media terrorism
• social networks
• twitter
• facebook
• isis
• jihad
• martyrdom