I have provided the URL for my Digital Project website, as well as my Wordle™ Word Cloud.
This word cloud identifies the dominant themes related to the cyber war between ISIS & Anonymous. Isis has been using social media to glorify violence, prompting Anonymous’ hack attack by shutting down many accounts. The media attacks will continue to be a recurring theme, as one account is taken down, more are created to replace them.
A theme that dominates the word cloud is Ghost Group. It can be easily mistaken for anonymous, but this is actually another group known as the “Ghost Security Group”. They disagree with Anonymous’ plan to shut down the terrorists, but instead think it is better to surveil ISIS communications. The word cloud conveniently positioned it next to ISIS as if to show they really are keeping a close eye.
Browsing through the word cloud a summary could be made using some of the main themes. Twitter plays a major role in the cyber war in that it is ISIS’s preferred social media site. This has caused rising criticism that Twitter is allowing the Islamic State to exploit the social network to spread terror and seek recruits. In response to the allegations, Twitter suspended ISIS related accounts. If it were up to Ghost Group, they would have thought it better to monitor the Islamic State militants than silence them.
