ISIS: Its History, Ideology, and Psychology

Jaśko, Katarzyna; Kruglanski, Arie W.; Hassan, Ahmad Saiful Rijal Bin; Gunaratna, Rohan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73653-2_30-1

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“…So, this study is an effort which integrates with other fields of linguistic disciplines and even different fields of humanities to fill the gap in the literature and is deemed necessary to understand the discourse as a tool used in social and political control or change. Without detailing all reasons behind the recruitment of more than 30,000 foreigners who joined ISIS by the end of 2015, "the high media profile of ISIS had a high position in the effective power of ISIS" (Jasko et al, 2018). As for Fernandez (2015), "the deft use of propaganda and social media" was a significant reason for the group's success in the recruitment process, which shifted the recruitment efforts from its narrow scope in Iraq and Syria to a worldwide scope throughout the whole world.…”

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Discourse Analysis of ISIS Ideology Show Cased in Speeches Addressing Jordanians

2024

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This study aimed to investigate the existence of ideology in the discourse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by examining the linguistic elements of two speeches through video addressing Jordanians. The discourse analysis approaches were adopted, such as the socio-cognitive and ideology theories of Van Dijk, which were considered to sense the manipulation of discourse and find out ISIS's discursive strategies. The study analysed two videos broadcasted on the Internet and social network accounts at a superstructural level, namely, the context, pattern, and topic which uncovered that ISIS carefully took into consideration the political and social context of Jordan to elaborate speeches exploiting Islamic topics and practices familiarly and persuasively. The study concluded that the discursive strategies of ISIS were constructed by glorifying the group members' actions and achievements while de-emphasising the outside group's positivity and delegitimising its authority. Keywords: ISIS, Critical discourse analysis, Ideology, Jordan, Socio-cognition

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Discourse Analysis of ISIS Ideology Show Cased in Speeches Addressing Jordanians

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“…One of the most popular Islamic terrorist groups is ISIS. The founder of the organization is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and over time, through its propaganda, ISIS managed to convince many people to become members of the organization [12]. ISIS is located in parts of Syria and Iraq and it is known all over the world as an extremist and violent group [13].…”

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Social and Emotional Intelligence as Factors in Terrorist Propaganda: An Analysis of the Way Mass Media Portrays the Behavior of Islamic Terrorist Groups

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In the era of speed and technology, mass media has an important role in keeping people informed about events happening all around the world, but also in shaping their opinion. One of the main issues that mass-media focuses on is represented by terrorist propaganda. Nowadays, terrorist attacks have become more frequent, and we argue that, due to their social and emotional intelligence, terrorists have the power to manipulate not only people but also mass media. The purpose of our paper was to assess the way Romanian and foreign online mass-media channels present information about Islamic terrorist groups and the activities developed by them, in order to raise awareness about the matter of propaganda and the role of mass media in promoting it. In order to conduct the research, content analysis was used as a method. A total of 36 news presented online by Romanian and foreign mass-media channels were analyzed. The result of the research revealed that Romanian mass-media channels focus more on using words with aggressive content, and that foreign mass-media channels focus on religious and cultural-geographic content. Therefore, the results of the research revealed that the way mass media presents terrorist attacks can unintentionally contribute to the promotion of terrorist propaganda.

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“…Actually, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is a terrorist organization active primarily in Iraq and Syria, remains an organization that has perpetrated globally the deadliest terrorist attacks in the past decade (Institute for Economics and Peace, 2018). The main goal of ISIL is to expand its territory by annexing other territories and by attracting Muslims to live in a caliphate system that is unified on the basis of Islamic Sharia law (Jasko, Kruglanski, Bin Hassan, & Gunaratna, 2018; Zelin, 2015). Thus, ISIL is an emblematic example of a separatist group whose main concern is to own and to extend its territory; other examples include separatist groups such as Euskadi Ta Askatasuna in Spain, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka (Doosje et al, 2016).…”

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Virtual reality as a tool for deradicalizing the terrorist mind: Conceptual and methodological insights from intergroup conflict resolution and perspective-taking research.

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Drozda‐Senkowska²

2020

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The radicalization of individuals and related commitment of acts of extreme violence, such as terrorism, have become one of the main societal concerns over the past years. Radicalization refers to a complex psychosocial process through which individuals adopt increasingly extreme convictions. The field of individuals’ deradicalization has attracted the interest of scholars and policymakers in recent years, and establishment of actual deradicalization programs has involved various components. The main aim of the current article is to propose an innovative methodological component for deradicalization programs based on immersive virtual reality (VR) technology. Accordingly, the development of the methodological implementation is primarily grounded in the emergent research field of intergroup conflict resolution and perspective-taking that employs VR technology-based experiments. Although, VR-based intervention does not provide a perfect answer to all of the challenges related to individuals’ deradicalization from extremism, it offers an interesting perspective to address certain relevant issues in the field.

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ISIS: Its History, Ideology, and Psychology

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Discourse Analysis of ISIS Ideology Show Cased in Speeches Addressing Jordanians

Discourse Analysis of ISIS Ideology Show Cased in Speeches Addressing Jordanians

Social and Emotional Intelligence as Factors in Terrorist Propaganda: An Analysis of the Way Mass Media Portrays the Behavior of Islamic Terrorist Groups

Virtual reality as a tool for deradicalizing the terrorist mind: Conceptual and methodological insights from intergroup conflict resolution and perspective-taking research.

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