@article{Magdy_Darwish_Weber_2016, title={#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to study the antecedents of ISIS support}, volume={21}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6372}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v21i2.6372}, abstractNote={<p>Lately, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to control large parts of Syria and Iraq. To better understand the roots of support for ISIS, we present a study using Twitter data. We collected a large number of Arabic tweets referring to ISIS and classified them as pro-ISIS or anti-ISIS. We then analyzed the historical timelines of both user groups and looked at their pre-ISIS period to gain insights into the antecedents of support. Also, we built a classifier to ‘predict’, in retrospect, who will support or oppose the group. We show that ISIS supporters largely differ from ISIS opposition in that the former referred a lot more to Arab Spring uprisings that failed than the latter.</p>}, number={2}, journal={First Monday}, author={Magdy, Walid and Darwish, Kareem and Weber, Ingmar}, year={2016}, month={Jan.} }