TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - ISIS at its apogee: the Arabic discourse on Twitter and what we can learn from that about ISIS support and foreign fighters
JO  - Sage open
A1  - Ceron, Andrea
A1  - Curini, Luigi
A1  - Iacus, Stefano M.
SP  - e2158244018789229
EP  - e2158244018789229
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
N2  - We analyze 26.2 million comments published in Arabic language on Twitter, from July 2014 to January 2015, when Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)'s strength reached its peak and the group was prominently expanding the territorial area under its control. By doing that, we are able to measure the share of support and aversion toward the Islamic State within the online Arab communities. We then investigate two specific topics. First, by exploiting the time granularity of the tweets, we link the opinions with daily events to understand the main determinants of the changing trend in support toward ISIS. Second, by taking advantage of the geographical locations of tweets, we explore the relationship between online opinions across countries and the number of foreign fighters joining ISIS.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2158-2440
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244018789229
ID  - ref1
ER  -