Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204999 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/19/026
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
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.
Subjects: 
Social Media
Terrorism
JEL: 
D83
O30
D74
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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