New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology

The Boko Haram terrorism, which began in 2009 has had a devastating impact on the society. So far, it has triggered one of the worst humanitarian crises in history and has been responsible for over 30 thousand deaths with over two million others displaced, mostly in the North-east of the country wit...

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Main Authors:	Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo, Gujbawu, Mohammed, Abba-Aji, Nassir
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
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spelling	ukm-139072020-01-12T23:56:18Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13907/ New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo Gujbawu, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Nassir The Boko Haram terrorism, which began in 2009 has had a devastating impact on the society. So far, it has triggered one of the worst humanitarian crises in history and has been responsible for over 30 thousand deaths with over two million others displaced, mostly in the North-east of the country with sizeable spillovers into the neighboring countries of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Boko Haram’s primary goal was to create an Islamic caliphate in the region, and like other terrorist networks, uses the unconventional, hit-and-run guerrilla war tactics. This has rendered the insurgency to be a hard nut to crack, a phenomenon that is cited as one of the main reasons the group is able to continually carry out successful attacks despite being declared “technically defeated”. Hence, this need to seek for alternative, ‘unconventional’ media as a tool for counterterrorism. The media, both new and traditional have been shown to play a critical role toward the de-Bokoharamization campaign of the Nigerian Federal Government in collaboration with its Western partners. However, due to the guerrilla tactics nature of the insurgency, human-wearable digital microchip technology such as radio frequency identification and wireless body area network systems have been suggested as capable of yielding desirable outcomes. Following a critical review of literature and taking from Laswell’s communication model, this review article offers a digital communication counterterrorism model to complement the state’s efforts toward the anti-terrorism campaign. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/13907/1/30482-116201-1-PB.pdf Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo and Gujbawu, Mohammed and Abba-Aji, Nassir (2019) New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 35 (4). pp. 50-68. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1235
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description	The Boko Haram terrorism, which began in 2009 has had a devastating impact on the society. So far, it has triggered one of the worst humanitarian crises in history and has been responsible for over 30 thousand deaths with over two million others displaced, mostly in the North-east of the country with sizeable spillovers into the neighboring countries of Chad, Niger and Cameroon. Boko Haram’s primary goal was to create an Islamic caliphate in the region, and like other terrorist networks, uses the unconventional, hit-and-run guerrilla war tactics. This has rendered the insurgency to be a hard nut to crack, a phenomenon that is cited as one of the main reasons the group is able to continually carry out successful attacks despite being declared “technically defeated”. Hence, this need to seek for alternative, ‘unconventional’ media as a tool for counterterrorism. The media, both new and traditional have been shown to play a critical role toward the de-Bokoharamization campaign of the Nigerian Federal Government in collaboration with its Western partners. However, due to the guerrilla tactics nature of the insurgency, human-wearable digital microchip technology such as radio frequency identification and wireless body area network systems have been suggested as capable of yielding desirable outcomes. Following a critical review of literature and taking from Laswell’s communication model, this review article offers a digital communication counterterrorism model to complement the state’s efforts toward the anti-terrorism campaign.
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author	Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo Gujbawu, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Nassir
spellingShingle	Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo Gujbawu, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Nassir New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
author_facet	Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo Gujbawu, Mohammed Abba-Aji, Nassir
author_sort	Mohammed Ibrahim, Adamkolo
title	New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
title_short	New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
title_full	New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
title_fullStr	New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
title_full_unstemmed	New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
title_sort	new media and the challenges of boko haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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New media and the challenges of Boko Haram terrorism: proposing the adoption of human-wearable digital technology

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