“Terroristic Content”: Towards a Grading Scale

Donald Holbrook, Gilbert Ramsay and Max Taylor

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2013, vol. 25, issue 2, 202-223

Abstract: In this article we offer a first attempt at providing a set of universal grading criteria for determining on what basis, and how far, an item of discursive content can be considered “terroristic.” In doing so, we draw loosely on the existing COPINE scale for child abuse images. The scale described in the article is not intended to reflect actual risk of engagement in terrorist violence, nor is it intended to have evidential validity in relation to offenses in certain jurisdictions relating to “terrorist publications.” Rather, by formalising assumptions which seem already to be latent in the literature on terrorist use of the Internet, it aspires to serve as a starting point for a more methodologically coherent approach to relationships between content—particularly online content—and terrorism.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2011.653893

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