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Die emotionale Wirkung terroristischer Kommunikation: zwischen professioneller Propaganda und medialer Berichterstattung
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 19 (2019), pp. 219-258
"Der sogenannte Islamische Staat nutzt in seiner Kommunikationsstrategie vor allem eine Form von direkter Zielgruppenansprache über eigens produzierte Videos und Nachrichtenkanäle. Die Verwendung von massenmedialen Multiplikatoren ist zwar weiterhin ein wichtiger Bestandteil zur Verbreitung von An
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Islamist Buzzers: Message Flodding, Offline Outreach, and Astroturfing
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 187-208
"Based on ethnographic research on Islamist buzzers – social media political operators tasked with making particular online conversation subjects trend – in Indonesia, this article details the process of how the proliferation of insensitive message in both the online and offline realms plays a r
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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Deep Insights
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other
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Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2019), xiv, 213 pp.
Filmemacher des Terrors: Die Bildpropaganda des globalen Dschihad
In: Diaspora: Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften
Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing; Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), pp. 147-160
"Die Medien und die breite Öffentlichkeit zeigen sich oftmals verwundert über die Perfektion der IS-Propaganda. Dabei wird übersehen, dass der Medienkrieg des Pseudo-Islamischen Staats auf einer ‚Großen Erzählung', einer ‚Meistererzählung' basiert, an der dschihadistische Organisationen se
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The Media World of ISIS
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), viii, 277 pp.
A Typology of the Islamic State's Social Media Distribution Network
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 453-482
"The Islamic State's media strategy allows for a message that has been crafted by a handful of IS propaganda agents to be disseminated by a few primary distributors, who in turn can reach thousands of unaffiliated sympathizers, and therefore millions of Twitter users. By means of a conclusion, this
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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.
De-Centring Western Enlightenment: Revisionist Histories, Contestation and Communication Theory
Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440
La fabrique audiovisuelle de l'Etat Islamique: La vidéo comme arme de guerre et outil de légitimation et de recrutement
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 134 pp.
"La propagande de guerre de l'EI adopte les codes des genres cinématographiques afin de fictionnaliser le fait guerrier et dissimuler l'fenvers du décors. Cette fantasmagorie surréaliste fonctionne selon un double regime de fascination et de stimulation des pulsions de mort qui ont pour effet de
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Social Media in Africa: A Double-Edged Sword for Security and Development
Cambridge: UNDP; RAND Europe (2018), xii, 80 pp.
"Social media is used by al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and ISIL in Africa. The importance of cross-media communications to the strategies of all three groups is underlined by the existence of dedicated branches for media planning, namely al-Shabaab’s al-Kata’ib, Boko Haram’s Media Office of West Afri
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As Terrorism Evolves: Media, Religion, and Governance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xi, 189 pp.
"Seib traces how terrorism has proliferated and increased significantly in menace in the relatively brief period between the rise of al-Qaeda and the creation of Islamic State. With close attention to the linkages between media, religion, and violence, the book offers incisive analysis of how organi
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Das digitale Kalifat: Die geheime Macht des Islamischen Staates
München: Beck (2016), 299 pp.
"Viele Computerspiele faszinieren durch die Verbindung von mittelalterlichem Ambiente und Hightech. Genau hier liegt für viele Jihadisten auch die Faszination des IS, der eine "mittelalterliche" Ordnung mit Hilfe des Internets aufrechterhält. Das Steuersystem orientiert sich am Koran, wird aber di
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Jihadists Make Telegram Messaging App a Recruiting Tool: The 'Islamic State' Glorifies Terrorism and Turns to German Teenagers
Mainz: jugendschutz.net (2016), 4 pp.
"An app called Telegram is the new hot thing for jihadists to disseminate their propaganda. Terror organizations like the 'Islamic State' (IS) also use this app to win over German us-ers. jugendschutz.net documented a vast amount of graphic content like beheading videos – anyone can use his smartp
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The Islamic State's Global Propaganda Strategy
The Hague: International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) (2016), 83 pp.
"This Research Paper aims to analyse in depth the global propaganda strategy of the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) by looking at the methods through which this grand strategy is carried out as well as the objectives that IS wants to achieve through it. The authors first discuss IS’ growth mode
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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State
Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.
"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons
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Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Lanham, Maryland et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xiv, 281 pp.
"The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority group
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