The Marketing Of Terrorism Analysing The Use Of Social Media By Isis

Author : Lisa Wiechert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 366845986X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marketing of Terrorism. Analysing the Use of Social Media by ISIS written by Lisa Wiechert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media has played a central role in the digital era for almost a century, influencing almost all aspects of life. The use of social media in warfare is threatening not only one country but the whole global community, is a recent development. The famous speech by Abu Muhammad al-Adnani on social media inspired the bloody month of Ramadan in 2016 and showed the deadly power of social media inspired attacks and what the Islamic State is capable of achieving. Although the terrorist group has lost territory over the last few weeks of combat both in Syria and Iraq, and is on the edge of losing their main capital Mosul, IS still remains a hybrid threat. Consisting of military powers and an unmatched affinity of using social media as a cyber-war weapon, IS will continue to be a severe danger to the global community. This book aims to foster a deeper understanding of the use of social media for recruiting efforts by the so-called Islamic State (IS), and to analyse its propaganda methods in order to develop possible countermeasures. A special focus will be put on the method of recruitment of young Western foreign fighters. These individuals are the easiest to recruit for ISIS and pose the greatest risk to the global community, especially in regards to home grown terrorism and so-called lone wolf attacks. Since this area of research is very new and quickly evolving, the field still needs extensive research. It is difficult to analyse the use of social media content by the Islamic State due to limited information access and flow (encryption, propaganda, verification and inconsistency). The Islamic State is a military threat on the battleground as well as a potential cyber threat for the international community. Despite these challenging circumstances, this book will provide a new theoretical model based on the marketing model of a customer journey in connection with the main principles of storytelling. Ultimately, this research work will try to provide experts with a new and modern approach of analysis as a base for possible counter measures to weaken and combat the current threat posed by the Islamic State. From the text: - Islamic State; - Terrorism; - Social Media; - Propaganda Institutions; - Radicalisation

Author : Stephane J. Baele
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190932457
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ISIS Propaganda written by Stephane J. Baele and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 strategic logic guiding its evolution, examining each of its multi-media components, and showing how these elements work together to radicalize audiences' worldviews. This volume highlights the challenges that this sort of "full-spectrum propaganda" raises for counter terrorism forces. It is not only a one-stop resource for any analyst of IS and Salafi-jihadism, but also a rich contribution to the study of text and visual propaganda, radicalization and political violence, and international security.

Author : Ahmed Al-Rawi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040020763
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ISIS' Propaganda Machine written by Ahmed Al-Rawi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines ISIS’ media propaganda machine. The book focuses on case studies that have been largely understudied in relation to ISIS’ media production. Empirically, it offers new insights into how ISIS uses its media production to disseminate its extremist ideology by focusing on video games, educational apps, Dark Web sites, and offline billboards. The book argues that despite all the discussion about how ISIS has disappeared or even died, the terrorist group’s daily activities on the Dark Web show that they are still thriving and disseminating their propaganda in more than 20 different languages, and effectively functioning as an international news organization. Using a mixed-method research approach, the book offers a multilayered understanding of media content and fills a major gap in the literature, especially in relation to the use of educational apps and the Dark Web. This book will be of much interest to students of media and communication studies, terrorism and counterterrorism, Middle Eastern politics, and international relations.

Author : Rosemary Pennington
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253045940
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Media World of ISIS written by Rosemary Pennington and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people around the world to abandon their lives and their countries to join a foreign war. The Media World of ISIS explores the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the organization's use of media and propaganda. Contributors consider how ISIS's media strategies imitate activist tactics, legitimize its self-declared caliphate, and exploit narratives of suffering and imprisonment as propaganda to inspire followers. Using a variety of methods, contributors explore the appeal of ISIS to Westerners, the worldview made apparent in its doctrine, and suggestions for counteracting the organization's approaches. Its highly developed, targeted, and effective media campaign has helped make ISIS one of the most recognized terrorism networks in the world. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of its strategies—what worked and why—will help combat the new realities of terrorism in the 21st century.

Author : Evan J. Copello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Copy Versus #hashtag written by Evan J. Copello and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, terrorism and radicalization has been a consistent issue that many countries have faced. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been the most recent in a long trail of organizations that have sought to strike terror against the western world. However, ISIS is distinguished from other groups, like Al-Qaeda, in that ISIS supports a complex propaganda machine. Although ISIS is not the first organization to use the social media platform, they are the first to use it with such diversity. The two main channels that ISIS uses to spread their propaganda messages are through social media sites such as Twitter and through online journals such as the Dabiq. Recent research has attempted to determine how recruitment messages are being received and which messages trigger recruitment. It is the goal of this paper to determine which messages are salient, and the psychological constructs that support them. By coding messages for appeals to identity, need for cognitive closure, time pressure, and appeals to ideology, the researchers expect that the two main channels of ISIS propaganda differ in their messages. We hypothesize that Twitter messages will be targeted towards novice ISIS sympathizers, whereas the Dabiq will be focused on already-radicalized individuals who have moved past the introduction of the radical ideology.

Author : Mohammedwesam Amer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Terrorism Research written by Mohammedwesam Amer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally speaking, the availability and affordances of social media can be seen as a tool to spread terrorism. The development of new technologies plays a major role in facilitating roles of terrorist, radical movements to mobilize their ideas and recruit new people and true believers. A small poster printed from the Internet and hung in a local bodega may look beautiful and peaceful with flowers and bright colours, but could actually be an embraced call to terrorist attacks and glorification as a martyr; however, this does not come without factors. These major arguments lead to the major focus in this study which is mainly on terrorism in the context of social media. This paper has two fold objectives. The first one is to critically analyse social media practices used by radical and terrorist movements exemplified by the Islamic State. The second one is to shed lights on challenges facing researching terrorism in social media and suggesting solutions mainly to methodological frameworks. This paper draws on the body of literature at the intersection of social media, terrorism studies and critical discourse studies (KhosraviNik 2017) to lay the foundation for a social media critical discourse analysis of the ways Islamic terrorist propaganda machine appropriates the digital participatory spaces. The paper accounts for social media discourses of the so-called Islamic State aka ISIS/ISIL. The preliminary results show that Islamic State's members or sympathizers redistribute IS's materials by sharing, liking, editing and re-uploading on various social media platforms rather than one platform. Strategically, they use 'Fake Account Creation' to increase their publicity and mobility to reach wide audiences. This research comes without facing major challenges presented mainly in data collection and sampling as well as finding a framework to analyse communication practices of social media. Also, there are factors that affect virtual audiences of terrorist groups/movements on social media, e.g. accessibility of the medium itself such as age, gender, location, socio-economic status, the availability of content mainly its linguistic demands as most of Jihadist or terrorist movements' forums are published in Arabic language, but still there are some materials are produced in different languages.

Author : Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Committee
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508977315
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Terrorist Propaganda written by Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Committee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorists' use of social media has exploded over the past several years. Terrorist groups from ISIS to the Taliban use social media platforms to recruit, radicalize, spread propaganda and even raise money. Terrorists know the benefit of social media. Social media is easy to use, it is free, and it reaches everyone in the world. Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that it is unlawful to provide a designated foreign terrorist organization with material support or resources, including any property-tangible or intangible-or services, among them, communication, equipment, and facilities. If foreign terrorist organizations are using American companies to spread propaganda and raise money, the question that remains is: Is this a violation of American law? American newspapers would have never allowed our enemies in World War II to place ads in, say, the New York Times for recruitment of people to go and fight against America. So why do social media companies allow terrorist content on their platforms?

Author : Alava, Séraphin
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231002457
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth and violent extremism on social media written by Alava, Séraphin and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorenzo Vidino
Publisher : Ledizioni
ISBN 13 : 8867056204
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fear Thy Neighbor written by Lorenzo Vidino and published by Ledizioni. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three years Europe and North America have been hit by an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks perpetrated by individuals motivated by jihadist ideology. Who are the individuals who have carried out these attacks? Were they born and raised in the West? Or were they an “imported threat”, refugees and migrants? How did they radicalize? Were they well educated and integrated, or social outcasts? Did they act alone? What were their connections to the Islamic State? The answers to these and other questions have large implications for our understanding of the threat facing us and, consequently, help us design sounder policy solutions built on empirical evidence. This study, the first of its kind, seeks to analyze the demographic profile, radicalization trajectories and connections to the Islamic State of all the individuals who have carried out attacks inspired by jihadist ideology in North America and Europe in the three years since the proclamation of the caliphate in June 2014.

Author : Peter Warren Singer
Publisher : Eamon Dolan Books
ISBN 13 : 1328695743
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Likewar written by Peter Warren Singer and published by Eamon Dolan Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense experts P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking.