Unveiling the Nexus: How New Media Empowers Terrorism in the Modern World

Terrorism is a social problem that has been on the rise. It has led to many attacks in different parts of the world that has claimed many lives and caused damage to property. The question has been “why have the cases of terrorist attacks been on the rise in the recent past?” One of the main cause for the rise of acts of terrorism has been attributed to the rise of new media. New media can be described as any form of the virtual network through which communication can take place. The development of new media is associated with advancement in technology that has brought about new effective methods of communication. It includes social media, internet, blogs and other new and innovative forms of communication. The book report explores the relationship between media and the rise of terrorism in the world. It has put the focus on the developments of new media as great and innovative tools of communication that have allowed terrorists to spread their propaganda and radicalize many people into their cause.

According to the book, the early developments of the internet in late 1990sand early 200s provided terrorists with great opportunities for spreading their objectives and propaganda to the world. The terrorists were very quick to understand and utilize aspects of new media and as the new media expanded so did their agendas. The use of the internet in the Middle East proliferated in countries associated with various terrorist groups.

The internet developed and terrorist found faster and efficient ways of spreading their narratives to the world. Media corporations and governments had limited control of the spread of these narratives because they had little to no control over them. The new media made it easy for terrorist groups to pass information to a greater audience across the world.

There are other factors associated with the new media, and one of them is the reduction in prices of network devices around the world. These devices became cheap and very easily accessible. Other advancements in technology include increased bandwidth and also increased the quality of communication.

The development and advancement of the use of social media have had great influence in the spread of terrorism. Twitter has become a tool highly relied upon by terrorist. This is because of its capacity for instant communication, the ability to spread information quickly and also the ability to offer instant and front-line communication to a mass of audience. It is a social media platform that has become highly accepted and information form it is considered legitimate by many. In the world of today, even media houses quote information from Twitter as legitimate. It is easily accessible and compatible with smartphone devices.

New media is different from old media because first of all it is faster and can rich a mass audience quicker than old forms of media. Another difference is that old media is usually controlled by a small group of people who then deal with distribution of information that has been selected and targeted to a particular audience. The information from old forms of media can be altered through various forms of interactions with the people who control them, on the other hand, new forms of media allow anyone to convey information to the public in a manner that is uninterrupted. It has limited influences from governments and other organization, and this makes it very powerful. The book report is, therefore, effective in exploring the use of new media by terrorists in the spread of their agendas to the world. It is one of the main factors that has facilitated the rise of terrorism in the world.