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London Underground Terrorist Attacks

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In this essay I will analyze how and why the Internet distinctively differs from other ordinary kinds of networks, specifically the London Underground system (reference to the network analysis of the 2005 London underground attacks). I will use technical terminology specific of the “network society”, and these will be explained in the next paragraph. Therefore, in this essay I will analyze and discuss my opinion of understanding the Internet as largely different from other kinds of networks, and I will support my point using some key scholar’s theories and experimental results.

Before analyzing this issue, it is important to define a few words which I will continuously refer to in this essay: network; internet, “networked society”, nodes …show more content…

As explained above, networks are all about relationship of things approximated from the real world, and this are made of nodes which represent literally anything that can have a relationship with something else and edges are the elements that connect nodes in multiple ways. In the above paragraph I have outlined Castell’s hypothesis on Internet as a network, which I support the content of it as provides three proved features that distinguish Internet to other types of network. Indeed, if looking at Ferenc(2008) analysis of the London’s underground network of the 2005 terrorist attack, it is possible to understand how a different type of network works and how this differs from the internet’s network. What Ferenc(2008) focused on was how man –made systems, e.g. the underground system, can be represented by networks and “how these systems respond to the loss of parts, and in particular, how networks react to loosing their nodes”. This relates to the theory of Network Centralization, Ferenc(2008), for which “the centralities of all nodes can reveal much about the overall network structure. A very centralized network is dominated by one or a few very central nodes. If these nodes are removed or damaged, the network quickly fragments into unconnected sub networks. Highly central nodes can become critical points of failure”. This refers exactly with Ferenc hypothesis that the network position of the attacked stations was key to the main goal of the terrorists, indeed “a network analysis reveals that, if the aim of the 7 July 2005 London terrorist attack was to disrupt the underground infrastructure, then optimal or nearly optimal solutions were chosen for

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