Open AccessBook Review [Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, (London, 2020)]
Author(s) -
Macaulay Nicola
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
national security journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2703-1934
pISSN - 2703-1926
DOI - 10.36878/nsj20210411.07
Subject(s) - publishing , terrorism , politics , media studies , social media , political science , key (lock) , style (visual arts) , sociology , art , law , visual arts , computer science , computer security
This is a book review of the book by Julia Ebner (2020), Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, Bloomsbury Publishing.Published - 20 Feb 2020Published by - Bloomsbury Publishing (London, 2020)Format - HardbackISBN - 9781526616784368 pagesReviewed by Nicola MacaualyJulia Ebner is a journalist and research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in the United Kingdom. Her expertise in online networking and communications methods of right-wing extremism informs a number of advisory groups, governments, NATO, the UN and the World Bank and has also resulted in several publications to date. This thought-provoking book titled ‘Going Dark’ is Ebner’s latest release and highlights key social and technological drivers behind modern-day political activism, radicalisation and terrorism online and is written in a style that is both compelling and easy to follow. As such it is equally accessible to passively interested readers as well as researchers and those employed in cyber security and counterterrorism.