TY  - SER
AU  - Berger, J.M.
TI  - The Metronome of Apocalyptic Time: : Social Media as Carrier Wave for Millenarian Contagion
PY  - 2007///
PB  - Alex P Schmid
KW  - Estado Islámico
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Ciberterrorismo
KW  - Medios de comunicación social
N2  - The Islamic State uses social media to activate a sense of “apocalyptic time” among its supporters online. Key elements of this campaign include instilling a sense of temporal acceleration and imminent arrival of end-times scenarios, leveraging the dynamics of social contagion and remote intimacy on beliefs that have an inherently viral appeal, and providing a vehicle for supporters outside its territories to immerse themselves in a highly idealized version of its millenarian project, the so-called caliphate. The Islamic State is the first group to employ these amplifying tactics on social media at an industrial scale, but it will likely not be the last
UR  - http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/444/875
ER  -