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Maura Conway

Dr. Maura Conway is Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland and Coordinator of VOX-Pol, a EU-funded project on violent online political extremism (voxpol.eu). Prof. Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, including cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremist online content, and violent online radicalisation. She is the author of over 40 articles and chapters in her specialist area(s). Her research has appeared in, amongst others, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Media, War & Conflict, Parliamentary Affairs, and Social Science Computer Review. Prof. Conway has presented her findings before the United Nations in New York, the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, the UK House of Lords, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Europol’s Counter-terrorism Centre and a member of the Editorial Board of Terrorism and Political Violence.

BA (Legal Science, Sociology & Politics), National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), 1997; MA (International Relations), University of Limerick (UL), 1998; PhD (Political Science) Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 2006

Other Journal

	Year	Publication
	2012	Conway, M. (2012) 'From al-Zarqawi to al-Awlaki: The Emergence and Development of an Online Radical Milieu' 2 :12-22.
	2011	Conway, M. (2011) 'Against Cyberterrorism' 54 :26-28.
	2009	Conway, M. (2009) 'Le Cyber-Terrorisme: Le Discours des Médias Américains et ses Impacts' 39 :81-94.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) 'Terrorism and Internet Governance: Core Issues' 2007 :23-33.
	2004	Conway, M. (2004) 'Nitro to the Net' 60 :19-22.
	2002	Conway, M. (2002) 'Cyberterrorism' 101 :436-442.

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2013	Conway M., D. O’Callaghan, D. Greene, J. Carthy, P. Cunningham (2013) WebSci’13 ‘Uncovering the Wider Structure of Extreme Right Communities Spanning Popular Online Networks’ Paris, France, 01/05/2013-05/05/2013.
	2011	Conway, M. (2011) Seminar on 'Radikale Milieus: Zur Rolle des sozialen Umfeldes terroristischer Gruppen' The Internet and New Forms of Radical Milieus University of Bielefeld, Germany, 07/03/2011-09/03/2012.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2020	Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj Lakhani, Jeremy Reffin (2020) 'A Snapshot of the Syrian Jihadi Online Ecology: Differential Disruption, Community Strength, and Preferred Platforms'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, .
	2020	Maura Conway (2020) 'The Major Social Media Platforms Routed IS, Why Can’t They Do the Same to the Extreme Right?'. RUSI Journal, .
	2020	Maura Conway (2020) 'Researching Online Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Ethics Issues'. Terrorism and Political Violence, .
	2020	Weeda Mehran, Stephen Herron, Ben Miller, Maura Conway, Anthony F. Lemieux (2020) '‘Two Sides of the Same Coin? Comparative Analysis of Texts by Far-right and Violent Jihadi Extremists'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, .
	2018	Conway M.;Khawaja M.;Lakhani S.;Reffin J.;Robertson A.;Weir D. (2018) 'Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, .
	2018	Conway M.;Macdonald S. (2018) 'Introduction to the Special Issue: Islamic State’s Online Activity and Responses, 2014–2017'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, .
	2017	Conway, M (2017) 'Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research'. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 40 :77-98.
	2017	Gill, P;Corner, E;Conway, M;Thornton, A;Bloom, M;Horgan, J (2017) 'Terrorist Use of the Internet by the Numbers: Quantifying Behaviors, Patterns, and Processes'. Criminology & Public Policy, 16 :99-117.
	2015	Walker C.;Conway M. (2015) 'Online terrorism and online laws'. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide, 8 (2):156-175.
	2015	O’Callaghan D.;Greene D.;Conway M.;Carthy J.;Cunningham P. (2015) 'Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems'. Social Science Computer Review, 33 (4):459-478.
	2012	Conway M. (2012) 'Introduction: Terrorism and contemporary mediascapes - reanimating research on media and terrorism'. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 5 (3):445-453.
	2012	Conway M.;McInerney L. (2012) 'What's love got to do with it? Framing 'JihadJane' in the US press'. Media, War and Conflict, 5 (1):6-21.
	2012	Maura Conway (2012) '‘From al-Zarqawi to al-Awlaki: The Emergence and Development of an Online Radical Milieu’ CTX: Combating Terrorism Exchange'. 2 :12-22.
	2012	Bowman-Grieve L.;Conway M. (2012) 'Exploring the form and function of dissident Irish Republican online discourses'. Media, War and Conflict, 5 (1):71-85.
	2011	Conway M. (2011) 'Privacy and security: Against cyberterrorism'. Communications of the ACM, 54 (2):26-28.
	2011	Maura Conway (2011) 'Against Cyberterrorism: Why cyber-based terrorist attacks are unlikely to occur'. Communications of the ACM, 54 :26-28.
	2010	Maura Conway (2010) 'The 'T' word: a review of Richard English's terrorism: how to respond (Oxford University Press 2009)'. 30 .
	2007	Maura Conway (2007) 'Terrorism and Internet governance: core issues'. DISARMAMENT FORUM, 2007 :23-34.
	2006	Conway, M (2006) 'Terrorism and the Internet: New media - New threat?'. Parliamentary Affairs, 59 :283-298.
	2006	Conway, M. (2006) 'Terrorist Use of the Internet and Fighting Back'. INFORMATION & SECURITY, 19 :9-30.
	2003	Conway, M. (2003) 'What is Cyberterrorism? The Story so Far'. JOURNAL OF INFORMATION WARFARE (PRINT), 2 :33-42.
	2003	Maura Conway (2003) 'Hackers as terrorists? Why it doesn't compute '. COMPUTER FRAUD & SECURITY, 2003 :10-13.
	2003	Conway, M. (2003) 'Code Wars: Steganography, Signals Intelligence, and Terrorism'. KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY, 16 :45-62.
	2002	Conway, M. (2002) 'Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Self-Representation: The Case of Hizbollah.org in JOURNAL OF DIPLOMACY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS'. 4 .
	2002	Conway, M. (2002) 'Reality Bytes: Cyberterrorism and Terrorist Use of the Internet'. 7 .

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2014	O'Callaghan D.;Prucha N.;Greene D.;Conway M.;Carthy J.;Cunningham P. (2014) ASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining *Online social media in the Syria conflict: Encompassing the extremes and the in-betweens*
	2013	O'Callaghan D.;Greene D.;Conway M.;Carthy J.;Cunningham P. (2013) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) *An analysis of interactions within and between extreme right communities in social media*
	2009	Bermingham A.;Conway M.;Mclnerney L.;O'Hare N.;Smeaton A. (2009) Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2009 *Combining social network analysis and sentiment analysis to explore the potential for online radicalisation*
	2008	Conway M.;McInerney L. (2008) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) *Jihadi video and auto-radicalisation: Evidence from an exploratory YouTube study*
	2013	O'Callaghan D.;Greene D.;Conway M.;Carthy J.;Cunningham P. (2013) Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2013 *Uncovering the wider structure of extreme right communities spanning popular online networks*
	2008	Conway, M;McInerney, L (2008) INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY INFORMATICS, PROCEEDINGS *Jihadi Video and Auto-radicalisation: Evidence from an Exploratory YouTube Study*

Book Review

	Year	Publication
	2014	Conway, M (2014) Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives. LONDON: BREV

Editorial

	Year	Publication
	2019	Conway, M;Macdonald, S (2019) Introduction to the Special Issue: Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses, 2014-2017. PHILADELPHIA: ED
	2012	Conway M.;McInerney L. (2012) Terrorism in 'old' and 'new' media. ED

Published Report

	Year	Publication
	2020	Maura Conway (2020) Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2019: The Year in Review. VOX-Pol, .
	2019	Maura Conway (2019) Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2018: The Year in Review. VOX-Pol, .
	2019	Maura Conway, Ryan Scrivens, Logan Macnair (2019) Right-Wing Extremists’ Persistent Online Presence: History and Contemporary Trends. International Centre for Counter-terrorism (ICCT), .
	2018	Maura Conway, Michael Courtney (2018) Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2017: The Year in Review. VOX-Pol, .
	2017	Maura Conway, Moign Khawaja, Suraj Lakhani, Jeremy Reffin, Andrew Robertson, David Weir (2017) Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts. VOX-Pol, .
	2016	Maura Conway (2016) Violent Extremism and Terrorism Online in 2016: The Year in Review. VOX-Pol, .
	2015	Paul Gill, Emily Corner, Amy Thornton, Maura Conway (2015) What are the Roles of the Internet in Terrorism? Measuring Online Behaviours of Convicted UK Terrorists. VOX-Pol, .

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2020	Ryan Scrivens, Paul Gill, Maura Conway (2020) 'The Role of the Internet in Facilitating Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Suggestions for Progressing Research' In: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.
	2019	Ryan Scrivens, Maura Conway (2019) 'The Roles of “Old” and “New” Media Tools and Technologies in the Facilitation of Violent Extremism and Terrorism' In: New York : Routledge.
	2018	Maura Conway (2018) 'Is Cyberterrorism a Real threat? Yes: Why We Should Start from This Assumption' In: New York : Routledge.
	2015	Maura Conway , Clive Waker (2015) 'Countering terrorism via the Internet' In: London : Routledge.
	2015	Conway, M. & C. Walker (2015) 'Online Counterterrorism' In: C. Walker and G. Lennon(Eds.). London & New York : Routledge.
	2014	Maura Conway (2014) 'Reality Check: assessing the (un)likelihood of cyberterrorism' In: New York : Springer.
	2014	Conway, M. (2014) 'From “Cyberterrorism” to “Online Radicalism' In: Mahmoud Eid(Eds.). Pennsylvania, USA : IGI Global.
	2013	Conway M. (2013) 'Terrorist use of the internet and the challenges of governing cyberspace' In:
	2012	Maura Conway (2012) 'Von al-Zarqawi bis al-Awlaki: Das Internet als neue Form des radikalen Milieus' In: Frankfurt and New York : Campus.
	2012	Conway, M. (2012) 'What is Cyberterrorism and How Real is the Threat? A Review of the Academic Literature, 1996 - 2009' In: Pauline Reich and Eduardo Gelbstein(Eds.). Pennsylvania : IGI Global.
	2008	Conway M. (2008) 'Terrorist use of the internet and the challenges of governing cyberspace' In:
	2008	Conway, M. (2008) 'Media, Fear and the Hyperreal: The Construction of Cyberterrorism as the Ultimate Threat to Critical Infrastructures' In: Myriam Dunn(Eds.). London : Ashgate.
	2007	Maura Conway (2007) 'Terrorism and the making of the 'New Middle East'' In: : Palgrave Macmillan.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) 'Terrorism and the Making of the ‘New Middle East': New Media Strategies of Hizbollah and al Qaeda' In: Philip Seib(Eds.). London : Palgrave.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) 'Cyberterrorism: Hype and Reality' In: Leigh Armistead(Eds.). Virginia, USA : Potomac Books.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) '‘Terrorism & New Media: The Cyber Battle Space' In: James Forest(Eds.). Connecticut, USA : Praeger Security International.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) 'Terrorism, the Internet, and International Relations: The Governance Conundrum' In: Myriam Dunn(Eds.). London: : Ashgate.
	2007	Maura Conway (2007) 'Cyberterrorism: hype and reality' In: : Potomac Books, Inc.
	2007	Conway, M. (2007) 'Terror TV? Hizbollah's Al Manar Television' In: James Forest(Eds.). Connecticut, USA : Praeger Security International.
	2007	Maura Conway (2007) 'Terrorism, the Internet, and international relations: the governance conundrum' In: : Ashgate.
	2007	Maura Conway (2007) 'Terrorism and new media: the cyber-battlespace' In: Westport, CT : Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
	2005	Maura Conway (2005) 'Cybercortical warfare: Hizbollah's internet strategy' In: Bennett, W.L. (2003) ��Communicating Global Activism: Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Networked Politics.�� Information, Communication and Society 6(2). Blanford, N. (2001) ��Hizbullah Steps up Psychological Warfare: Party believes that the Media Plays Critical Role in Palestinian Uprising.�� Daily Star (Beirut) 8 September. Available online . Brown, R. (2001a) ��The New Public Diplomacy: Power in the Age of Mixed Media.��(Eds.). London : Routledge.
	2005	Conway, M. (2005) 'Terrorist Web Sites: Their Contents, Functioning, and Effectiveness' In: Philip Seib(Eds.). : 0.
	2005	Maura Conway (2005) 'Terrorist web sites: their contents, functioning and effectiveness' In: : Palgrave Macmillan.
	2004	Conway, M. (2004) 'Code Wars: Steganography, Signals Intelligence, and Terrorism' In: David Clarke(Eds.). : 0.
	2004	Maura Conway (2004) 'Cyberterrorism: media myth or clear and present danger?' In: Amsterdam/New York : Rodopi.
	2003	Maura Conway (2003) 'Terrorism and IT: cyberterrorism and terrorist organisations online' In: United States : McGraw-Hill.

Edited Book

	Year	Publication
	2020	Maura Conway, Stuart Macdonald (Ed.). (2020) London: Routledge,
	2017	Maura Conway, Lee Jarvis, Orla Lehane, Stuart Macdonald, Lella Nouri (Ed.). (2017) The Netherlands: IOS Press,

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	International Studies Association (ISA)	Member of Executive Commitee of International Communication Section (2007 - 2010); Conference Programme Chair (2010 - 2011)	-

Honors and Awards

	Date	Title	Awarding Body
	01/01/2017	DCU President's Research Award	Dublin City University

Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict		-
	Terrorism and Political Violence		-
	IRISH STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (PRINT)		-
	MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT		-

Education

Institution	Qualification	Subject
Trinity College Dublin	PhD
NUIG	B.A. Legal Science, Sociology and Politics	Law, Sociology, Politics
University of Limerick	M.A. International Studies	International Relations and Security

Reviews

	Journal	Role
	PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM	Reviewer
	Journal of Communication	Reviewer
	Social Science Computer Review	Reviewer
	British Journal of Politics and International Relations	Reviewer
	Media, War and Conflict	Reviewer
	Critical Studies on Terrorism	Reviewer
	Journal of Information Technology and Politics	Reviewer
	Millennium-Journal Of International Studies	Reviewer
	New Media and Society	Reviewer
	Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences	Reviewer
	Studies in Conflict and Terrorism	Reviewer
	Sociology Compass	Reviewer
	French Politics	Reviewer
	Culture, Theory and Critique	Reviewer
	European Journal of Political Research	Reviewer
	International Journal of Press/Politics	Reviewer
	INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY	Reviewer
	International Security	Reviewer
	Journal of Communication Inquiry	Reviewer
	Political Communication	Reviewer
	Review of International Studies	Reviewer
	Science and Engineering Ethics	Reviewer
	Scientific Reports	Reviewer
	Irish Political Studies	Reviewer

Research Interests

Terrorism and the Internet, particularly the conceptualisation and portrayal of cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of terrorist websites/online content, violent online radicalisation