Secondary Popular #1
Karam, Zenia and Sreenivasan, Hari. “How is ISIS recruiting the next generation of fighters? PBS post on July 19, 2015 at 3:26 PM EST, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/isis-recruiting-next-generation-fighters/ Accessed 7 NOV. 2016
In This article/ interview Hari Sreenivasan opens with a description of who ISIS is and what they are about. Then Zenia Karma she tells us how boys as young as their early teens had been taken by ISIS from schools, homes, Mosks and other places in the country. She also explained what the terror group tried to drill into them, that being memorizing the Koran, Training with weapons/ explosives and she says most Disturbing is the fact that they make them watch the gruesome beheadings and then have to practice doing the same things on dolls. They also go into detail about where else they find these kids and why they choose kids over adults.
For the authors the both seemed to be very credible, and also very prestigious. Hari Sreenivasan has been working in the news industry for 20+ years and has done many studies and has a lot of good reviews. Zenia Karma on the other hand I could not find anything that would verify that she is credible.
This Is a popular source because It doesn’t show any opinion rather only stating facts from the findings
PBS is a very credible source that is trusted by mostly everyone, including Very Liberal and Very Conservative people. It is also still relevant seeing that it happened in the last year and a half.
I will use this to better describe how ISIS gets insides peoples minds and how they train them to be able to do things like beheadings without it effecting them emotional. I will also use it to say what demographic and age group they tend to seek out.
Secondary Scholarly #2
Blaker, Lisa. “The Islamic State’s Use of Online Social Media” Article is from Scholar Commons (University of Southern Florida) http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=mca ACCESSED 8 NOV 2016
This Scholarly article is about who ISIS is attracted to and vice versa. Meaning who they want to recruit and who wants to join them. It also states how they use social media to recruit and goes into how they go after and who they go after per country.
The Author Lisa Blaker has a very and I mean very credible background because her profile is actually very impressive and is led by a Masters degree and two BA’s. she is also a Sr. Study director at a major co.
This is a Scholarly source because it is full of opinions and if from the university of Southern Florida which means she most likely had it edited by her peers before she actually published it.
I know that the site is very much credible because it is a college university website and they would be a very reliable web site.
I will use this to help me show evidence of how they use social media for different areas and to help explain who they target and how specifically do they go after them. But most importantly I am going to use it to show how ISIS gets people to promote violence in their communities.
Primary Popular #3
Sanchez, Ray “ISIS exploits media to make inroads in U.S.” Posted on CNN on 5 JUN 15 at 8:04 AM. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/04/us/isis-social-media-recruits/ ACCESSED 9 NOV 2016.
This article is about how top ISIS people are trying to recruit americans and create sleeper cells over here. They also state ISIS’ call to arms through social media and It wanting people take out police officers and authority. Finally they bring up multiple messages that were sent through social media trying to crusade people to come over to the middle east and help them fight or to create a plot that would cause mass casualties back home.
This is a Popular source because its unbiased research that is strictly facts and the opinion is left out of the equation.
CNN is a very reliable news source and personally the one I like and trust the most because while its is slightly to the left it is still trusted by many people on both sides of the aisle.
I will use this are Article much like the one above in the one above in that I can shed some light on what social media sites they favor more than others and I will use this mainly to show how they try and find distraught people and take advantage of them because they are more venerable.
Popular Secondary #4
Singer, P.W., and Brooking, Emerson. “Terror on Twitter” Posted on Popular Science on December 11th, 2016. http://www.popsci.com/terror-on-twitter-how-isis-is-taking-war-to-social-media . ACCESSED 10 NOV 2016
This is by far the most information I have found in a source yet. This document is filled with useful information for my paper. This article talks about a variety of different topics about ISIS but they seem to go really in depth on the who, what, where, when, how part of ISIS and twitter. They also explain how ISIS first got thrown onto the social media stage…. That obviously being the brutal beheading of James Foley. They also talk about specific cases like San Bernardino where sleeper cells actually carried out a plot of mass casualties.
P.W Singer is a well established author and has published 4 books all in this area of research (All on homeland security or war in general). Emerson Brooking has held multiple positions in D.C and his current position is why I trust his writing so much. His current position is Research Fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations. If they trust his opinion that much then I should have no need to question it.
This is a Popular source because It is not opinion based and these two authors have done their research and have come up with a long list of solid facts and put them into what I believe a very helpful and informing piece of writing.
This one I wasn’t so sure about how I could prove It was credible until I came across an article on the BBC which is one of the top 5 most reliable unbiased sources. The article listed Popular Science in the top 5 in its category of trustworthy sources.
I will Use this website to show how exactly technology has changed the way Terror groups recruit and share their violence. The article perfectly lays out examples of this for me and It helps me understand the phases of technology and its relationship with ISIS/ Al Qaeda.
Scholarly Primary #5
Gladstone, Rick and Goel, Vindu. “ISIS Is Adept on Twitter, Study Finds” Posted on the New York Times on 5 MAR 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/world/middleeast/isis-is-skilled-on-twitter-using-thousands-of-accounts-study-says.html . ACCESSED 10 NOV 2016.
This article is about how the number of terrorist associated people/groups on twitter has grown
by massive numbers over the last few years. It also shows how they are taking twitter by storm and how it is almost impossible for them to deactivate all of the accounts because of the number of them.
Vindu Goel is a writer for the New York Times and focuses mostly on events in Asia and the middle east. He has been writing columns for many different websites since 1989 and graduated from Harvard University and went back and got another degree at the University of Michigan. I believe he is a very intelligent man and because of his background can be deemed extremely credible.
This really could be either a scholarly or popular but I believe it is more scholarly because the two authors collaborated and gave many facts while also giver their opinion.
The New York Times is a very well known source and is used by millions of people everyday thru out the US which for me tells me it is very credible and trustworthy.
I am going to use this source to show the amount of people that use social media in terrorist groups and how it is pretty much impossible to stop them from recruiting people to join them or inciting people to promote violence. Finally I will use it to get data to back up my points that i am trying to make, that being how they have taken social media and used it to their advantage.
Scholarly Primary
O’Brian, Lauren B. “The Evolution Of Terrorism Since 9/11” Posted by the FBI on their website in late 2011. https://leb.fbi.gov/2011/september/the-evolution-of-terrorism-since-9-11 .
This document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation explains how terror groups and attacks have changed in the years after September 11th, 2001. They go into detail and give statistics on the rise in attacks and where they come from. Such as where they give the number of attacks year by year and who and how they were occurred.
The author is a writer for Forbes and wrote this essay for FBI which I don’t think that they would allow a non credible person to write something if they didn’t believe in her or didn’t trust her.
The FBI website is one- hundred percent a credible site because it is a site run by part of the us government.
I will use this website to show how the terror groups have attacked places in the us alongside evidence from other sources to compare how the change in technology and social media have changed over the years.
I am still trying to locate a 7th source and I will update ASAP when I locate one I believe will help my paper.