ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the influence of social media. Internet users in various parts of the world collaborate to create data through social media such as blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. One advantage of such platforms is that they allow terrorists to reach audiences, including women and girls, beyond geographical boundaries with just a few mouse clicks. The internet offers a perfect counterculture environment, in which alternative modes of information, particular media interests, and marginalized groups have thrived due to the limitless and unhampered digital space that allows these genres and groups to succeed. Women’s penchant for online use and their willingness to go beyond their assigned roles (rather than merely fulfilling auxiliary and operational functions), along with the public’s difficulty in regarding them as perpetrators, makes them as – if not more – threatening to our national security.
