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ISIS Media

Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2019), 45 pp.

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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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
Allan Thompson (ed.)
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 ... more

Filmemacher des Terrors: Die Bildpropaganda des globalen Dschihad

In: Diaspora: Netzwerke globaler Gemeinschaften
Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha (ed.)
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 ... more
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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 ... more

L'impact du jihad virtuel

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 184 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 ... more
"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 ... more

Islamic State Propaganda and the Mainstream Media

Sydney: Lowy Institute for International Policy (2016), 20 pp.

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 ... more