Propaganda
Following in the Trail of Islamic State: The Rise of Media Platforms in the Jihadist Ecosystem
October 20, 2024This article examines the role of media platforms in the jihadist propaganda ecosystem. It presents a case study of the Muntasir Media platform which achieved extensive media impact in Spain during the period 2018–19. A descriptive analysis is provided of the emergence, evolution and demise of the platform, which can be viewed as an archetypal ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Radicalization
October 20, 2024This chapter explores the manner in which extremist groups could use artificial intelligence (AI) in the future to promote their narratives and recruit people to their causes. It looks at four broad use cases, namely generative AI, chat bots, gaming, and predictive analytics, and analyzes how extremists could adapt their propaganda and outreach efforts to ...
Propaganda in focus: decoding the media strategy of ISIS
September 12, 2024This 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 ISIS’s international media operations and propaganda machinery from 2014 to 2017. The findings reveal that a ...
ISIS’s Online Propaganda and Underlying Psychological Orientations of Its Consumers
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
A Tribal Call to Arms: Propaganda and What PVE Can Learn from Anthropology, Psychology and Neuroscience
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Assessing Europol’s Operation Against ISIS’ Propaganda: Approach and Impact
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Criminalising the Possession of “Terrorist Propaganda”: A Human Rights Analysis
August 20, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
How Do Those Vulnerable to Terror Recruitment Respond to YouTube Counter-Narrative Videos?
August 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...