Terrorists playing with MMOGs
Terrorist uses for massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are explored by this post at the Counterterrorism Blog. The author identifies three main uses:
- Recruitment
- Training
- Money laundering
Interestingly, especially in light of our previous post, there's no mention of Second Life for propaganda. The emphasis on small-group activities like recruitment and teaching is in line with this conception. Next step, terrorists use Web 2.0 to amplify their Metaverse work?
(via Edward Castronova)
Well - it appears that hate groups are already doing that on SL anyway.
Posted by: Radhika Gajjala | July 30, 2007 at 19:41
and myspace, and facebook......
Posted by: peter naegele | July 31, 2007 at 14:20
We've seen hate groups and terrorists using both SL and Web 2.0, Radhika (greetings!) and peter. Do you know of cases where such groups use one of these media, then enhance it by translation into another?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | August 01, 2007 at 18:12