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Fabrikation eines Verbrechers: Der Kriminalfall Bruno Lüdke als Mediengeschichte

Axel Doßmann, Susanne Regener

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 331 pp.

"Bis in die 1990er-Jahre hinein galt der Berliner Kutscher Bruno Lüdke als brutalster Serienmörder Deutschlands - eine "Bestie in Menschengestalt". Nachdem der zwangssterilisierte Mann 1943 des Mordes an einer Frau verdächtigt und festgenommen wurde, lasteten ihm NS-Kriminalpolizisten über 50 we ... more

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Vom Vorurteil zur Gewalt: Politische und soziale Feindbilder in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Wolfgang Benz

Freiburg et al.: Herder (2020), 479 pp.

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Apprehending the “Telegenic Dead”: Considering Images of Dead Children in Global Politics

Helen Berents

International Political Sociology, volume 13, issue 2 (2019), pp. 145-160

"Images of suffering children have long been used to illustrate the violence and horror of conflict. In recent years, it is images of dead children that have garnered attention from media audiences around the world. In response to the deaths of four children killed by the Israeli army while playing ... more

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A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a

Walter Armbrust

Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 197-217

"Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure k ... more

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Loving Hate: Anti-Muslim Extremism, Radical Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization

Maik Fielitz, Julia Ebner, Jakob Guhl, Matthias Quent

Jena (DE); London; Berlin: Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ); Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2018), 75 pp.

"This report focuses on the interactional dynamics between anti-Muslim extremists and radical Islamists in Germany and beyond. It reveals ideological underpinnings, approaches to mobilization and communication patterns, which all prove to be analogous on both sides, and it places emphasis on the rec ... iprocity of hate that may serve to intensify processes of individual and group radicalization. Our study presents the first systematic analysis of the interplay between both forms of extremism that plays out on different places on the Internet. It provides direct evidence showing that Islamist and far-right movements converge at different levels and mutually amplify one another. The analysis focuses on measuring the online interaction between extremist content, individuals and events. Overall, over 10,000 Islamist and far-right Facebook posts and over one million German anti-Muslim tweets between 1 January 2013 and 30 November 2017 were analyzed for this study. Additionally, we conducted three months of ethnographic research into encrypted pro-IS and pro-Al-Qaeda groups on Telegram as well as into far-right chat groups. Key Findings Radical Islamism and anti-Muslim racism, which manifest themselves in the form of far-right extremism and right-wing populism exhibit a symbiotic relationship. In the context of glocal interaction patterns, the far right operates as a national sphere of resonance for international jihadism. Both negate and dismantle basic democratic values such as the inviolability of human dignity and religious freedom. What’s more, racism against Muslims paves the way for radicalization through Islamic fundamentalists. We identified three key patterns that reveal common worldviews and argumentative resemblance: First, the demonization of enemies based on a clear distinction between friend and foe. Second, the victimization of one’s own group as both sides take advantage of the alleged discrimination of their own group and the constructed dominance of the other. Third, conspiracy, which is the basic explanation provided for why the respective milieus do not share their exclusionary claim to truth. The alleged systematic blindness caused by the Jews or fake news are needed to balance the dissonance between claims and reality as well as to contribute to demonizing other groups." (Executive summary) more

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Las ficciones del poder: Patriotismo, medios de comunicación y reorientación afectiva de los colombianos bajo Uribe Vélez (2002-2010)

Fabio López de la Roche

Bogotá: Debate, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto de Estudios Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales (IEPRI) (2014), 606 pp.

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The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture, and Money

Peter Pomerantsev, Michael Weiß

New York: Institute of Modern Russia; The Interpreter (2014), 44 pp.

"The Kremlin exploits the idea of freedom of information to inject disinformation into society. The effect is not to persuade (as in classic public diplomacy) or earn credibility but to sow confusion via conspiracy theories and proliferate falsehoods. The Kremlin is increasing its “information war ... more

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Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Environment

Carol Winkler, Cori Elizabeth Dauber (eds.)

Carlisle, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army War College Press; Strategic Studies Institute (2014), x, 242 pp.

"Visual images have been a central component of propaganda for as long as propaganda has been produced. But recent developments in communication and information technologies have given terrorist and extremist groups options and abilities they never would have been able to come close to even 5 or 10 ... more

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War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 261 pp.

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Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines and Picture Books

John A. Lent (ed.)

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2001), ix, 249 pp.

"All of the articles consider cartoon and/or comic art in the historical and social setting of seven South, Southeast, and East Asian countries: India, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan. The contributors treat comic and narrative artincluding comic books, comic strips, pictu ... more