ABSTRACT

The study assesses the relationship between terrorism and social media from a cross section of 148 countries with data for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. The main finding is that there is a positive relationship between social media in terms of Facebook penetration and terrorism. The positive relationship is driven by below-median quantiles of terrorism. In other words, countries in which existing levels of terrorism are low are more significantly associated with a positive Facebook-terrorism nexus. The established positive relationship is confirmed from other externalities of terrorism: terrorism fatalities, terrorism incidents, terrorism injuries and terrorism-related property damages. The terrorism externalities are constituents of the composite dependent variable.

摘要

该研究评估了148个国家/地区的恐怖主义与社交媒体之间的关系，并提供了2012年的数据。经验证据基于普通最小二乘，负二项式和分位数回归。主要发现是，社交媒体在Facebook渗透率和恐怖主义方面之间存在积极关系。积极关系是由中位数以下的恐怖主义分子驱动的。换句话说，现有恐怖主义水平较低的国家与Facebook-恐怖主义的积极联系更为密切相关。恐怖主义的其他外部因素证实了已建立的积极关系：恐怖主义死亡，恐怖主义事件，恐怖主义伤害和与恐怖主义有关的财产损失。