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Locating Cyberterrorism: How Terrorism Researchers Use and View the Cyber Lexicon

Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Lee Jarvis

Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 52 - 65

Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

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This article reports on findings from a survey on the concept of cyberterrorism from researchers working in twenty-four countries across six continents. Our aim is to contribute to the definitional debate in this area by exploring the boundaries between cyberterrorism and potentially related terms....

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Published in: Perspectives on Terrorism
ISSN: 2334-3745
Published: 2014
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