What follows is propaganda for the study of a particular commutative Banach algebra, A one not inappropriate to a conference which emphasises automatic continuity. In fact A is that subalgebra of the measure algebra, .i\J(T), of all regular bounded Borel measures on the circle under the total variation norm and convolution multiplication, which is characterised by the automatic continuity of me...

The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) continues to use social media as an essential element of its campaign to motivate support. On Twitter, ISIS' unique ability to leverage unaffiliated sympathizers that simply retweet propaganda has been identified as a primary mechanism in their success in motivating both recruitment and "lone wolf" attacks. The present work explores a large communit...

When in his Annual Report for 1905 the Registrar General for Ireland pointed out to the lately arrived Lord Lieutenant, The Earl of Aberdeen, that annually in every 100 deaths in Ireland 16 were victims of tuberculosis, Lady Aberdeen took notice. In March 1907 she founded the WNHA with the clear duty of taking part in the fight against the appalling ravages of that disease, and organised a Tube...

This study is based on the analysis of law enforcement practice, monitoring social networks, media materials and theoretical works Russian foreign scholars topic school shooting. The paper presents characteristics columbine subculture at present stage its development in Russian-speaking segment Internet. authors describe main provisions that form basis ideology shooting, substantiates this has ...

The paper examines topical issues of countering extremist and terrorist crimes. An analysis activity was carried out in accordance with the available statistics for past five years. It noted that it is necessary to intensify preventive work identify recruiters accomplices terrorists, cut off channels supply weapons money, suppress propaganda activities radicals extremists on Internet. A brief f...

Using a dataset of over 1.9 million messages posted on Twitter by about 25,000 ISIS members, we explore how ISIS makes use of social media to spread its propaganda and to recruit militants from the Arab world and across the globe. By distinguishing between violence-driven, theological, and sectarian content, we trace the connection between online rhetoric and key events on the ground. To the be...

Political communication, which is one of the most popular areas today, has become very for political actors, especially as a result developments in media sector. One important reasons fort his popularity to reach masses or target audience quickly with social media. Second, by using media, actors cheapest way without spending huge sums money. For channels have been useful propaganda and advertis...

This paper seeks to demystify the failed uprising against the colonial administration in 1959 in remote south-eastern Portuguese Timor, an event which later was ably used as propaganda by Indonesian revisionist historians and pro-integration Timorese during the Indonesian occupation. Providing a historical context for the rebellion and a narrative of events based on archival sources and intervi...