Propaganda
Terror, Territory and Quality: How Monitoring Propaganda Videos Provides Insight into the Taliban’s 2021 Occupational Control of Afghanistan
July 25, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Exploiting Political Crises: How Terrorists’ Polarize the Public and Garner Support in their Propaganda Campaigns
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Children are Being Used as Easy Weapons of Propaganda by Terrorist Organisations
July 11, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Daily Harvester: How ISIS Disseminates Propaganda over the Internet Despite Counter-Measures and How to Fight Back
July 9, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Interview with ISIS-chan – The Cute Anime Character Fighting ISIS Propaganda
June 28, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
The Semiotics of Violent Jihadist Propaganda: The Message and the Channel
May 14, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Online Jihadist Propaganda Dissemination Strategies
March 5, 2024It is well established that jihadist groups and their supporters post URLs on online platforms to outlink to items of propaganda stored on other platforms. Industry initiatives – such as Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s inclusion of URLs in its hash-sharing database, and Tech Against Terrorism’s Terrorist Content Analytics Platform – have sought to ...
The ‘First Person Shooter’ Perspective: A Different View on First Person Shooters, Gamification, and First Person Terrorist Propaganda
September 18, 2023During the 2019 Christchurch attack, the perpetrator livestreamed footage from a helmet-mounted camera. The aesthetic similarity of the attack footage to first-person shooter (FPS) videogames has led to speculation that this might have somehow ‘gamified’ the attack. Generally, the argument for this is that the attack footage (1) imitates or resembles FPS games, gamifying attacks ...