Ideological Infighting in the Islamic State
Journal abstract Drawing on leaked documents and other original sources in Arabic, this article examines the internal struggles over defining the Islamic State’s ideology during the period 2014 to the[…]
Tagged: ISIS
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Risk factors for terrorism: a comparison of family, childhood, and personality risk factors among Iraqi terrorists, murderers, and controls
Journal abstract Terrorism represents a major threat to global security; however, psychosocial risk factors for terrorism are insufficiently explored in the literature. Using a cross-sectional design, we examined group differences[…]
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“The Lions of Tomorrow”: A News Value Analysis of Child Images in Jihadi Magazines
Journal abstract This article reports and discusses the results of a study that investigated photographic images of children in five online terrorist magazines to understand the roles of children in[…]
Disrupting Daesh: Measuring Takedown of Online Terrorist Material and Its Impacts
Journal abstract This article contributes to public and policy debates on the value of social media disruption activity with respect to terrorist material. In particular, it explores aggressive account and[…]
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Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015 and 2016
Journal abstract This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the[…]
Promoting Extreme Violence: Visual and Narrative Analysis of Select Ultraviolent Terror Propaganda Videos Produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2015 and 2016
Journal abstract This paper examines aspects of violent, traumatic terrorist video propaganda produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the theoretical confines of abjection and the[…]
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The Spiritual Teacher and His Truants: The Influence and Relevance of Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi
Journal abstract Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi is one of the most important spiritual fathers of the ideology and movement that has come to be known as Salafi-jihadism. Based on primary source[…]
Children at War: Foreign Child Recruits of the Islamic State
Journal abstract The Islamic State’s recruitment of children is a challenge with no easy solutions. Islamic State foreign fighter records show that foreign children fighters tend to be, as expected,[…]
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Multimodal visual/sound redundancy in ISIS videos: a close analysis of martyrdom and training segments
Journal abstract The influence of ISIS online media campaign prompts the need to rethink twenty-first century warfare, particularly in relation to the media battlefield. To build a better understanding of[…]
Pursuing the allure of combat: an ethnography of violence amongst Iraqi Shi’I combatants fighting ISIS
Journal abstract The social sciences speak of violence through its meaning, performances, manifestations and representations; however, the inner workings of violence are less explored. In order to suggest a different[…]
