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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Deep Insights
Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxvi, 430 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook
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Propaganda in focus: Decoding the media strategy of ISIS
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, volume 11, issue 1123 (2024), 12 pp.
"This investigation employs the analytical framework established by Braddock and Horgan to conduct a comprehensive content analysis of 79 official English-language propaganda videos disseminated by ISIS, with the objective of quantifying the thematic composition and the evolutionary trajectory of IS
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp
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State of Play: Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet 2022
Tech Against Terrorism (2023), 32 pp.
"This report covers key trends and developments in terrorist and violent extremist (TVE) use of the internet over 2022. It aims to highlight the principal shifts in TVE behaviour and tactics online, and to inform more comprehensive, cross-industry responses to countering TVE exploitation of the inte
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ISIL Propaganda
San Francisco: Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) (2023), 22 pp.
Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), xxvi, 420 pp.
"The entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the cont
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Terrorist Recruitment, Propaganda and Branding: Selling Terror Online
London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 181 pp.
"This book analyses the marketing techniques that terrorist organisations employ to encourage people to adopt their ideology and become devoted supporters. The book's central thesis is that due to the development of digital technologies and social media, terrorist groups are employing innovative mar
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Provocative images in contemporary Islam
Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s
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Die Hydra des Dschihadismus: Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 366 pp.
"Die grausamen Handlungen dschihadistischer Gruppierungen wie der „Al-Qaida“ oder des „Islamischen Staates“ schockieren und verbreiten Angst. Immer wieder scheinen neue Attentäter nachzurücken, ein Phänomen, das Asiem El Difraoui mit den stets nachwachsenden Köpfen einer Hydra vergleicht
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Communicating the Sacred: Varieties of Religious Marketing
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), xi, 286 pp.
"This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down
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The Terror Times: The Depth and Breadth of the Islamic State Alternative News Outlet Ecosystem Online
London et al.: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 21 pp.
"This report highlights the networks, supporters, and the platforms of Islamic State disinformation disseminators, focusing on popular social media platforms as well as encrypted messaging applications. These disinformation networks are creating self-branded media outlets with followers in the tens
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Extremism in the Digital Era: The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiv, 293 pp.
"This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups. It provides new insights into the ideological mechanisms utilized by such organizations to incite sectarian conflicts and recruit local and foreign guardians to their alleged cause. Thi
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Communication in Global Jihad
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xi, 241 pp.
"This book conceptually examines the role of communication in global jihad from multiple perspectives. The main premise is that communication is so vital to the global jihadist movement today that jihadists will use any communicative tool, tactic, or approach to impact or transform people and the pu
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Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), xvi, 328 pp.
ISIS Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xii, 287 pp.
"This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and using rigorous methods, the authors trace the origins of the Islamic State's message, laying bare the strateg
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Social Media and the Islamic State: Can Public Relations Succeed Where Conventional Diplomacy Failed?
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xv, 98 pp.
"This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse. It looks at how ISIS by a sophisticated use of social media platforms and PR concepts was able to recruit, mobilize and spread fundamentalist propaganda in regions where it had little physical presence. The volume focuses on t
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Entertainment-Education Versus Extremism: Examining Parasocial Interaction Among Arab Viewers of Anti-ISIS TV Drama
Deep Insights
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 24 (2020), pp. 40-77
"Recent reports indicate that over 20,000 Arab fighters traveled to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria and another 5-15 percent of millennials across seven Arab countries consider some violent extremist groups to be on the right path. In response, Arab countries have experimented with entertainment-educati
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Propaganda des „Islamischen Staats“: Formen und Formate
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), vi, 411 pp.
"Die Propaganda der terroristischen Miliz "Islamischer Staat" hat für Aufsehen gesorgt und die Debatte um das Internet und vor allem das "Social Web" als Risikotechnologie oder Gefahrenraum mitbestimmt. Dabei setzt der IS auf ein breites Spektrum medialer und gestalterischer Formen und Formate eine
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Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism
Milano: Ledizioni LediPublishing; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) (2019), 156 pp.
"[...] this ISPI report aims to investigate the current landscape of jihadist online communication, including original empirical analysis. In doing so, the volume does not interpret the internet as a shapeless monolith but tries to highlight the opportunities and limitations of different digital pla
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