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Cyberterrorism: Understandings, Debates, and Representations

Andrew Whiting, Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo, Lee Jarvis

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism, Pages: 672 - 690

Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858569.013.38

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This chapter focuses on understandings and debates around cyberterrorism as well as the effect particular representations of this phenomenon have upon assessing its threat. The chapter begins by introducing various understandings of cyberterrorism and differentiates between narrow and broad concepti...

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Published in: The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780199858569
Published: Oxford University Press 2021
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