Impact of Digital Communication on Culture - Conflict and Change

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Digital communication is starting to play a key role in the spread of fundamentalism - Groups such as ISIS show how profound the effects can be - ISIS use social media to encourage young people to join and commit terrorist attacks
Lesaca
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Undertook an ethnography - Christian fundamentalist groups use social media to promote ideologies - Found a "virtual church" was built around those who shared common beliefs - Leads to creation of religious movements with no central leader
Howard
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New forms of communication are becoming more important when dealing with disasters - It changes the way authorities deal with disasters
Sutton, Palen and Shklovski
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Coined the term "the Facebook Effect" - Facebook has revolutionised the way the world uses the internet - It has changed the way that marketing, business, politics and communication is occurring on a global scale
Kirkpatrick
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If people want to commit a crime, they will do so with or without social media - Terrorist attacks happened before the advent of social media (eg the IRA)
Evaluation
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Undertook an ethnography - Christian fundamentalist groups use social media to promote ideologies - Found a "virtual church" was built around those who shared common beliefs - Leads to creation of religious movements with no central leader

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Howard

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New forms of communication are becoming more important when dealing with disasters - It changes the way authorities deal with disasters

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Coined the term "the Facebook Effect" - Facebook has revolutionised the way the world uses the internet - It has changed the way that marketing, business, politics and communication is occurring on a global scale

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If people want to commit a crime, they will do so with or without social media - Terrorist attacks happened before the advent of social media (eg the IRA)

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