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Posts tagged with ‘Propaganda’

  • Oct092020

    Lessons for 2020 from the Islamic State Online Fanclub

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    In 2015 one of the key problems for social media platforms was the rise of Islamic State (IS), their supporters…

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  • Sep292020

    Exposing Terror, Building Resilience: Harnessing Citizen Journalists and Social Media to Confront Terrorism

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    “I can’t report”; “I don’t trust the security forces to report”; “I have reported before, but he–the terrorist–was released”; “reporting…

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  • Sep252020

    Geographically Contextualising Right-Wing Extremism for Tech Platforms: A Perspective From India

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    A rise in right-wing extremism in the United States has forced the FBI to call out a domestic terrorism threat.…

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  • Sep212020

    Part 2: Algorithmic Agency in Online Extremism: The Bigger Picture

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    The rapid pace of technological evolution and tactics of adversarial attacks confer epistemic authority to data scientists. These experts play…

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  • Sep182020

    Striking Similarities Between Islamist Terrorism and Violent Right-Wing Extremism

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    In his book Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition (2018), Francis Fukuyama describes nationalism and Islamism as…

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  • Sep142020

    An Insider Perspective: What the Internet Means to UK Jihadists

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    September 2016, just hours before I was due to interview the radical Islamist leader Anjem Choudary, I received a text.…

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  • Sep022020

    Islamic State’s Use of Gamification and Low-Tech Terror Tactics

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    Islamic State (IS) and other violent extremist organisations continue to proliferate on online platforms despite efforts from major online platforms…

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  • Aug252020

    “I Will Tell You a Story About Jihad”: IS’s Propaganda and Narrative Advertising

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    The question of IS’s remarkable propaganda success became a topic of major interest for many researchers in the last five…

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  • Aug202020

    Editing for the Caliphate: Assessing Islamic State’s Editing Process and Equipment

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    For the past six years, Islamic State’s media has awed potential recruits and shocked their enemies. The media has been…

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  • Aug192020

    Militant Group Attacks Types and Shifts in Media Campaigns

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    Interviews with imprisoned and former members of Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda document that such group’s online media campaigns provide…

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