Cyberconflict, Online Political Jamming, and Hacking in the Gulf Cooperation Council.
This article offers insight into the role of hacking during the Qatar diplomatic crisis in 2017. I argue that the Middle East region has been witnessing an ongoing cyberconflict waged among different factions separated along regional rivalries, political alliances, and sectarian divisions. In relati...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Communication (19328036) Vol. 13; pp. 1301 - 1323 |
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University of Southern California, USC Annenberg Press
2019
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