观看谋杀案可以让我们了解圣战谋杀视频的黑暗世界，以及在互联网上观看和分享这些视频的人。
谋杀、酷刑和其他残忍行为的图片和视频在互联网上随处可见。为什么有些人会去寻找和观看这些材料，他们是如何受到影响的，他们有权一开始就看这些材料吗？在这本开创性的书中，恐怖主义学者西蒙·科蒂（Simon Cottee）访问了互联网的阴暗边缘，寻找答案。以ISIS为重点，他展示了该组织如何将鼻烟电影中的城市神话转变为全球数万人观看的残酷现实。在震惊网站上，他发现了一批ISIS粉丝，他们虽然憎恨ISIS，但喜欢在高清下观看ISIS最可怕的掠夺。他采访了他的极端主义研究者同事，询问他们在网上看到的所有黑暗事物，以及这如何影响他们的心理健康。他与清洁工交谈，清洁工的工作是报道并清除互联网上的暴力圣战宣传。他还调查了数千名年轻人，以了解他们对ISIS及其臭名昭著的斩首视频的看法。Cottee揭露了围绕网络激进主义的歇斯底里情绪，并展示了我们与暴力网络场景的接触比许多人让我们相信的要复杂得多、多方面得多。
观看谋杀会吸引任何对暴力、媒体、恐怖主义和ISIS感兴趣的人。恐怖主义研究、政治学、文化和传播学的学生和学者尤其感兴趣。
Watching Murder: ISIS, Death Videos and Radicalization
Watching Murder shines a light onto the dark world of jihadi murder videos and the people who watch and share them on the internet.
Images and videos of murder, torture and other cruelties are everywhere on the internet. Why do some people seek out and watch this material, how are they affected by it and do they have a right to watch any of it in the first place? In this ground-breaking book, terrorism scholar Simon Cottee visits the murky fringes of the internet in search of answers. Focusing on ISIS, he shows how the group transformed the urban myth of the snuff movie into a grim reality watched by tens of thousands of people across the globe. On shock-sites, he finds a contingent of ISIS fans who, while hating the group, love to watch its most monstrous depredations in high definition. He interviews his fellow extremism researchers and asks them about all the dark things they have seen online and how this has affected their mental health. He speaks with the cleaners whose job is to report and remove violent jihadi propaganda from the internet. And he surveys thousands of young adults to find out what they think of ISIS and its notorious beheading videos. Cottee exposes the hysteria around online radicalization, and shows how our engagement with violent online spectacles is much more complex and multifaceted than many would have us believe.
Watching Murder will appeal to anyone with an interest in violence, media, terrorism and ISIS. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of terrorism studies, political science, culture and communication.
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