Terrorism and social media: global evidence

Simplice Asongu, Stella-Maris Orim, Rexon T. Nting

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    Abstract

    The study assesses the relationship between terrorism and social media from a cross section of 148 countries with data for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. The main finding is that there is a positive relationship between social media in terms of Facebook penetration and terrorism.
    The positive relationship is driven by below-median quantiles of terrorism. In other words, countries in which existing levels of terrorism are low are more significantly associated with a positive Facebook-terrorism nexus. The established positive relationship is confirmed from other externalities of terrorism: terrorism fatalities, terrorism incidents, terrorism injuries and
    terrorism-related property damages. The terrorism externalities are constituents of the composite dependent variable.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)208-228
    Number of pages21
    JournalJournal of Global Information Technology Management
    Volume22
    Issue number3
    Early online date14 Jul 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

    Bibliographical note

    This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in ' Journal of Global Information Technology Management on 14/07/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/1097198X.2019.1642023

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    Keywords

    • Social Media
    • Terrorism

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