'Terrorist' Use of the Internet: An Overblown Issue Gilbert Ramsay Social Media Internet Political Violence Terrorism The role of the Internet in promoting transnational recruitment for armed groups, particularly "terrorist" organisations, is often taken for granted. In reality, the evidence is far from clear-cut. Research on how contemporary armed groups use the Internet suggests that they themselves view the Internet with considerable suspicion. Such accounts, however, fail to take account of an arguably more important question: whether those groups which make extensive use of the Internet have actually been more effective in causing violence than groups which have either chosen not to use it, or which were operating before it came into existence. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2016 2016-05-24 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2016-157-50811 eng 2714728-9 6 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/5081/4995 10.17192/meta.2016.6.5081 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2016/157/5081