Terrorism is a form of political violence that has been with us since antiquity. Over the last few decades, terrorism has been facing the challenges of cyberspace. Interactions and influences between cyberspace and terrorism are large and constantly changing. In order to achieve their goals, terrorist organizations use cyberspace to collect data, raise funds, and conduct propaganda, but also for the purposes of radicalization and operational planning. Scholars have widely discussed whether cyberspace has a transformative effect on the nature of terrorism. In order to examine the transformative or not effect of cyberspace on terrorism, we will analyze the case of Islamic terrorism and, in particular, Islamic State's actions in social media. In recent years, the ISIS has become very active in cyberspace. Specifically, many organizations and individuals are working on the name of ISIS and Jihad in cyberspace.
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