Terrorism, Communication, and the Media

Archetti, Cristina

doi:10.1057/9781137291387_3

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“…On the contrary, the latter experience may even increase these consumers' abhorrence of violent extremism and terrorism, which may be supposed to be the opposite effect than intended by its producers. 20 There's no reason to expect that this is not the experience of large segments of the general public also. This is not the same thing, on the other hand, as saying consumption of violent extremist content has negligible effects on all those who consume it.…”

Section: Arguments For and Against A Significant Role For The Internementioning

confidence: 99%

Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research

Conway

2016

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Section: Arguments For and Against A Significant Role For The Internementioning

confidence: 99%

Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research

Conway

2016

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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“…Terrorist propaganda may actually deter some individuals from engaging with or supporting them, when that group presents values or an idea of the ingroup that is inconsistent to the individual exposed to it. 81 The resulting effect may not be one of identification with the ingroup because of the perceptions of threat, 82 but disidentification. 83 Individuals at different stages of radicalisation may be impacted differently by MS. Further research is needed to clarify the issue.…”

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Engaging with Online Extremist Material: Experimental Evidence

Reeve

2019

Terrorism and Political Violence

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Despite calls from governments to clamp down on violent extremist material in the online sphere, in the name of preventing radicalisation and therefore terrorism research investigating how people engage with extremist material online is surprisingly scarce. The current paper addresses this gap in knowledge with an online experiment. A fictional extremist webpage was designed and (student) participants chose how to engage with it.. A mortality salience prime (being primed to think of death) was also included. Mortality salience did not influence engagement with the material but the material itself may have led to disidentification with the ingroup. Whilst interaction with the material was fairly low, those that did engage tended to indicate preference for hierarchy and dominance in society, stronger identification with the ingroup, higher levels of radicalism, and outgroup hostility. More engagement with the online extremist material was also associated with increased likelihood of explicitly supporting the extremist group. These findings show that indoctrination, socialisation, and ideology are not necessarily required for individuals to engage attitudinally or behaviourally with extremist material. This study is not conducted on the dependent variable, therefore shedding light on individuals who do not engage with extremist material.

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“…Additionally, internal communication within the group and also between the affiliated groups and factions was another reason for the early media usage. Some of the former offline methods kept on being used and are still used nowadays, such as planting dead drops, night letters and leaflets aimed at that part of population that still has no Internet access (Archetti 2015), using couriers by hands -especially favorite by late Bin Laden for its security benefits (S&B 2015(S&B : 58, Gardner 2013, or some more modern methods such as using disposable SIM cards and USB sticks (Gardner 2013). Generally, though, the communication environment has changed significantly since 1979.…”

Section: The Media Cradlementioning

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“…However, it would be simplistic to broadly accuse SocMed for causing this -technology is a tool for spreading, but it always "depends on an individual's unique position within a configuration of relationships at any given time" (Archetti 2015) whether they will succumb to the recruiters' pressure and join or if it produces the exact opposite. After all, "four decades of psychological research on who becomes a terrorist and why hasn't yet produced any profile" (Horgan in S&B 2015: 81).…”

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Power of Words: When Terrorism Goes Viral

Sonkova¹

2016

IAPSS Politikon

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In recent years, the actors of terrorism quickly learned how to adapt to the new communication and media environment. From face-to-face communication, localized propaganda, and direct recruitments methods, terrorist cells and organizations started moving their activities to online forums, social networks, and social media. The impact is huge and widespread: not only has their primary reach extended, but also, thanks to the overall globalization of communication methods, they are being given secondary "advertisement" through exposure in world media. This is becoming more than evident in the case of ISIS, whose reach and communication methods are unprecedented. This paper concentrates not only on ISIS, however, as it introduces when and how terrorism started turning viral and what particular forms this communication, propaganda as well as recruitment shift takes, together with what primary and what secondary threats it poses. Moreover, emphasis is put on both the technical aspects of the aforementioned changes as well as on the analysis of the new means of communication as such, namely on its linguistic, psychological, imagery, and security content. The outcome of the paper is the identification of the methods and analysis of the current state of affairs in terrorist communication, together with overall evaluation of their contemporary recruitment and propaganda practices.

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Terrorism, Communication, and the Media

Cited by 24 publications

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Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research

Determining the Role of the Internet in Violent Extremism and Terrorism: Six Suggestions for Progressing Research

Engaging with Online Extremist Material: Experimental Evidence

Power of Words: When Terrorism Goes Viral

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