Video games, terrorism, and ISIS’s Jihad 3.0

Al-Rawi, Ahmed

doi:10.1080/09546553.2016.1207633

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“…In fact, right-wing groups neither have a swath of land where to implement their worldview, nor is the concept of homeland deeply-ingrained in mainstream European society. Notwithstanding these differences, we envisage multiple avenues for the comparison of ISIS and far-right groups onlife strategies (Al-Rawi, 2018;Schwarzenegger and Wagner, 2018). One is the topic of the next section: how encrypted messaging services facilitate the onlife radicalization of small cliques.…”

Section: The Onlife Isis Recruitment: Us Vs Themmentioning

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Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

2020

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This article argues that one should consider online and offline radicalization in an integrated way. Occasionally, the design of some countermeasure initiatives treats the internet and the "real" world as two separate and independent realms. New information communication technologies (ICTs) allow extremists to fuse digital and physical settings. As a result, our research contends that radicalization takes place in onlife spaces: hybrid environments that incorporate elements from individuals' online and offline experiences. This study substantiates this claim, and it examines how algorithms structure information on social media by tracking users' online and offline activities. Then, it analyzes how the Islamic State promoted onlife radicalization. We focus on how the Islamic State used Telegram, specific media techniques, and videos to connect the Web to the territories it controlled in Syria. Ultimately, the article contributes to the recalibration of the current debate on the relationship between online and offline radicalization on a theoretical level and suggests, on a practical level, potential counter measures.

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Section: The Onlife Isis Recruitment: Us Vs Themmentioning

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Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

2020

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“…One of the earliest publications that is attributed to shaping the ideological foundations of ISIS is called “The Management of Savagery” written by a jihadist called Abu Bakr Naji (2006) (Al-Rawi, 2018). In relation to media’s role, Naji discusses how the media plays an important part in projecting the idea of a powerful nation-state which was what ISIS was obsessed with.…”

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Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s standardized media and jihadist nation-state building efforts

Al-Rawi

2019

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In its efforts to establish order and legitimacy among the people it once controlled, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria followed standardized and systematic nation-state building policies. The terrorist group attempted to establish an imagined jihadist nation-state with the assistance of standardized media productions and practices. These media productions that are examined in this article reflect Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s unified vision of the ultra-conservative society that it once intended to form in its different territories. I argue here that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria used standardized media productions to promote strict sharia laws including emphasis on men and women’s garments, distrust in secular rule, and calls for jihad in the different cities that it controlled. For Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, media is jihad and journalists are Mujahideen whose main purpose is to mobilize the masses and assist in creating a jihadist nation-state.

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“…In the past decade, production values of jihadist alternative media have increased considerably and were widely disseminated on social media platforms, helping to maintain their presence online (Al‐Rawi, 2018; Baele, Boyd, & Coan, 2019; Fisher, 2015; Fisher, Prucha, & Winterbotham, 2019; Shehabat & Mitew, 2018; Winter, 2019). However, recent efforts at platform governance involving governments, civil society, social media platforms, and Internet companies have had a significant effect on forcing jihadists off major platforms and applications (Conway et al, 2019).…”

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Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation

Ganesh¹,

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2020

Policy & Internet

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Extremist exploitation of social media platforms is an important regulatory question for civil society, government, and the private sector. Extremists exploit social media for a range of reasons—from spreading hateful narratives and propaganda to financing, recruitment, and sharing operational information. Policy responses to this question fit under two headings, strategic communication and content moderation. At the center of both of these policy responses is a calculation about how best to limit audience exposure to extremist narratives and maintain the marginality of extremist views, while being conscious of rights to free expression and the appropriateness of restrictions on speech. This special issue on “Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation” focuses on one form of strategic communication, countering violent extremism. In this editorial we discuss the background and effectiveness of this approach, and introduce five articles which develop multiple strands of research into responses and solutions to extremist exploitation of social media. We conclude by suggesting an agenda for future research on how multistakeholder initiatives to challenge extremist exploitation of social media are conceived, designed, and implemented, and the challenges these initiatives need to surmount.

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Video games, terrorism, and ISIS’s Jihad 3.0

Cited by 52 publications

References 25 publications

Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s standardized media and jihadist nation-state building efforts

Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation

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