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Sudanese Media Ecosystem
New
Internews (2025), 44 pp.
"Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted between May and August 2025, including interviews with journalists, media organisations, policymakers, and civil society activists, the report highlights how Sudan’s media environment has transformed into a “parallel battlefield” where
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Propaganda in focus: Decoding the media strategy of ISIS
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, volume 11, issue 1123 (2024), 12 pp.
"This investigation employs the analytical framework established by Braddock and Horgan to conduct a comprehensive content analysis of 79 official English-language propaganda videos disseminated by ISIS, with the objective of quantifying the thematic composition and the evolutionary trajectory of IS
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Online Jihadist Propaganda Dissemination Strategies
VOX-Pol Network of Excellence (2024), 55 pp.
Die Hydra des Dschihadismus: Entstehung, Ausbreitung und Abwehr einer globalen Gefahr
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 366 pp.
"Die grausamen Handlungen dschihadistischer Gruppierungen wie der „Al-Qaida“ oder des „Islamischen Staates“ schockieren und verbreiten Angst. Immer wieder scheinen neue Attentäter nachzurücken, ein Phänomen, das Asiem El Difraoui mit den stets nachwachsenden Köpfen einer Hydra vergleicht
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Examining Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization Through a Peace Communication Perspective
New York: Peter Lang (2023), 322 pp.
"This edited book expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to cover terrorism and radicalization, an issue that has not yet been touched by peace journalism scholars." (Publisher description)
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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State of Play: Trends in Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet 2022
Tech Against Terrorism (2023), 32 pp.
"This report covers key trends and developments in terrorist and violent extremist (TVE) use of the internet over 2022. It aims to highlight the principal shifts in TVE behaviour and tactics online, and to inform more comprehensive, cross-industry responses to countering TVE exploitation of the inte
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The Terror Times: The Depth and Breadth of the Islamic State Alternative News Outlet Ecosystem Online
London et al.: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 21 pp.
"This report highlights the networks, supporters, and the platforms of Islamic State disinformation disseminators, focusing on popular social media platforms as well as encrypted messaging applications. These disinformation networks are creating self-branded media outlets with followers in the tens
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Fundamentalism and the Search for Meaning in Digital Media Among Gen Y and Gen Z
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 33 (2022), pp. 255-285
"Religious fundamentalists have a common fear that modernity, digital mass media, and popular culture may corrupt young adults and undermine sacred values and moral codes. However, some young adults do not abandon their religion; conversely, they submit to fundamentalist religious authority and are
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Radikalisierung im Internet: Ein systematischer Überblick über Forschungsstand, Wirkungsebenen sowie Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
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Bonn: Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC); CoRE-NRW Netzwerk für Extremismusforschung in Nordrhein-Westfalen (2022), 48 pp.
"Das Internet unterstützt auf vielfältige Weise die Wirkung, Effizienz und Effektivität radikalen und extremistischen Gedankenguts, indem es Austausch, Koordination und Informationsbeschaffung erleichtert und beschleunigt. In Folge der langfristigen, strategischen Nutzung der Gelegenheitsstruktur
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A Taxonomy for the Classification of Post-Organisational Violent Extremist & Terrorist Content
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 26 pp.
"Across the case studies we identified three broad categories for the classification of content, which will be unpacked in greater detail in the following section: 1. Instructional material which contains guidance on operational aspects of terrorist and violent extremist activity. This includes guid
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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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Radicalism Online: An Analysis of the Meanings, Ideas, and Values of Violent Extremism in Central Asia
Bishkek: Internews; Centre for Religious Studies of Kyrgyzstan (2021), 136 pp.
"In an effort to help prevent violent extremism in Central Asia, the Research Centre for Religious Studies of Kyrgyzstan conducted an analysis of values, narratives, and online messages created and distributed by banned extremist groups in five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmeni
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Nationalsozialismus digital: Die Verantwortung von Bibliotheken, Archiven und Museen sowie Forschungseinrichtungen und Medien im Umgang mit der NS-Zeit im Netz
Göttingen: V&R unipress; Vienna University Press (2021), 360 pp.
"[...] Im günstigen Falle bilden Bibliotheken, Archive, Museen, Forschungseinrichtungen und Medien mit digitalen Angeboten, geeignet kontextualisiert und erklärt, Anlaufpunkte der Orientierung und befördern den Diskurs über den Nationalsozialismus und die damit verbundenen abscheulichen Gräuelt
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Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2021), 266 pp.
"The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary
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Das Selbstmordattentat im Bild: Aktualität und Geschichte von Märtyrerzeugnissen
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 314 pp.
"Selbstmordattentate werden seit jeher von Bildern begleitet und durch diese bestimmt. Von Märtyrerpostern über Videotestamente bis hin zu Computersimulationen und Livestreams vom Tatort - die Bildproduktionen der Milizen sind auf vielfältige Weise an der Tat beteiligt und müssen als Akteure im
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Extremism in the Digital Era: The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiv, 293 pp.
"This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups. It provides new insights into the ideological mechanisms utilized by such organizations to incite sectarian conflicts and recruit local and foreign guardians to their alleged cause. Thi
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Medien und Islamismus: Der Einfluss von Medienberichterstattung und Propaganda auf islamistische Radikalisierungsprozesse
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xi, 307 pp.
"Katharina Neumann beschäftigt sich aus einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit dem Phänomen der Radikalisierung. Sie untersucht mithilfe einer qualitativen Befragung von radikalisierten Islamisten und Szeneaussteigern, inwiefern journalistische Medienberichterstattung und Propagand
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Visualität und Weltpolitik: Praktiken des Zeigens und Sehens in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xii, 347 pp.
ISIS Propaganda: A Full-Spectrum Extremist Message
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), xii, 287 pp.
"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 strateg
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