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Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xvi, 218 pp.
"Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the 'gamification of extremism.' Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the f
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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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Counter Recruiting in the Online Gaming Community
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 9 pp.
"Organisations ranging from violent extremist groups to the US Army have used online gaming, a popular form of entertainment among the world’s youth, for recruiting purposes. To date, efforts to curtail online recruiting have been siloed to reduce recruitment of certain groups, such as violent ext
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Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers
"This chapter explores digital drivers of conflict. We examine how technologies are affecting conflict dynamics and what peacebuilders can do to mitigate these effects. We argue that because digital technologies are fundamentally altering the human experience, they are by extension fundamentally alt
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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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Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xxvii, 254 pp.
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
Deep Insights
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2020), viii, 348 pp.
"By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she was only seeing half the picture; she needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. She decided to go undercover in her spare hours – late
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Ideological Shift, Public Support and Social Media: The 'new' in Kashmir's 'new Militancy'
New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2020), 42 pp.
"The new militant movement in Kashmir, which began with Burhan Wani in the southern areas, has escalated the conflict in the Valley. While militancy is not new in Kashmir, the Pulwama attack put the conflict back on the radar of the international community. This paper examines the changing nature of
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Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2020), xvi, 328 pp.
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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Voices of Pakistani Youth: Lessons for Civil Society in the Development of Effective Counter-Narrative Campaigns
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2020), 33 pp.
"This report ties together young Pakistani people’s experiences of hate and extremism – with contextual research and questions put to young people in Pakistan, centred around their views on identity, media consumption patterns and perceptions of the state and national news media. This research h
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Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2019), xiv, 213 pp.
Radikalisierungsmaschinen: Wie Extremisten die neuen Technologien nutzen und uns manipulieren
Deep Insights
Berlin: Suhrkamp (2019), 334 pp.
"Julia Ebner verfolgt hauptberuflich Extremisten. Undercover mischt sie sich unter Hacker, Terroristen, Trolle, Fundamentalisten und Verschwörer, sie kennt die Szenen von innen, von der Alt-Right-Bewegung bis zum Islamischen Staat, online wie offline. Ihr Buch macht Radikalisierung fassbar, es ist
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The Neurocognitive Process of Digital Radicalization: A Theoretical Model and Analytical Framework
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 19 (2019), pp. 122-145
"Recent studies suggest that empathy induced by narrative messages can effectively facilitate persuasion and reduce psychological reactance. Although limited, emerging research on the etiology of radical political behavior has begun to explore the role of narratives in shaping an individual’s beli
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Red Death and Black Life: Media, Martyrdom and Shame
Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 177-195
"Most of Iran’s urban population experienced the war with Iraq (1980–1988) through the burden of privation and the fear of possible airstrikes. Thus, state-produced media on national television became the main apparatus through which they connected their daily lives to the national conflict. Rav
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Reviewing the Role of the Internet in Radicalization Processes
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 21 (2019), pp. 261-299
"This review presents the existing research on the role of the Internet in radicalization processes. Using a systematic literature search strategy, our paper yields 88 studies on the role of the Internet in a) right-wing extremism and b) radical jihadism. Available studies display a predominant inte
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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.
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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