Accession Number ADA560582
Title Impacts of Social Media on Citizen Security Behavior in Mexico.
Publication Date Mar 2012
Media Count 105p
Personal Author S. Childers
Abstract Over the past decade, Mexico has seen a dramatic increase in drug- trafficking organization (DTO) violence that has resulted in the deaths of over 47,000 Mexican citizens. This thesis examines the critical junction between social media and citizen security behavior in Mexico. The thesis begins by assessing the overall penetration of social media in Mexico, including its demographic and geographic characteristics. Next, it examines the use of social media by DTOs, how DTOs utilize social media to their advantage, the geographical concentrations of DTO violence, social media use by law-abiding Mexican citizens in their attempts to counter the violence in their communities, and social media use by politicians and journalists. The thesis concludes with a review of the findings of the study and recommendations based on three possible scenarios for the future of Mexican social media and Mexican citizen security behavior: Scenario 1 -- Shifting of DTO Activity Due to Social Media Activity in Mexico, Scenario 2 -- Use of Social Media to Further Combat Mexican DTO Violence, and Scenario 3 -- Regulation of Mexican Social Media.
Keywords Anxiety
Case studies
Citizen security behavior
Civilian population
Complexity theory
Conflict
Crimes
Criminals
Demography
Drug cartels
Drug smuggling
Drug-trafficking organizations
Drug-trafficking violence
Emergence theory
Facebook use
Fear
Geographic distribution
Government censorship
Government(Foreign)
Homicide
Internet
Mexican citizens
Mexico
Public opinion
Reaction(Psychology)
Scenarios
Security
Social media use
Social networking
Theses
Transnational criminal networks
Twitter use
Youtube use


 
Source Agency Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category 92 - Behavior & Society
92C - Social Concerns
92B - Psychology
57T - Psychiatry
62 - Computers, Control & Information Theory
Corporate Author Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Dept. of National Security Affairs.
Document Type Thesis
Title Note Master's thesis.
NTIS Issue Number 1222
Contract Number N/A

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