Full Description
This book offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the Islamic State's use of propaganda. Combining a range of different theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, and using rigorous methods, the authors trace the origins of the Islamic State's message, laying bare the strategic logic guiding its evolution, examining each of its multi-media components, and showing how these elements work together to radicalize audiences' worldviews. This volume highlights the challenges that this sort of "full-spectrum propaganda" raises for counter terrorism forces. It is not only a one-stop resource for any analyst of IS and Salafi-jihadism, but also a rich contribution to the study of text and visual propaganda, radicalization and political violence, and international security.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction. Full-spectrum Propaganda: Appraising the "IS Moment" in Propaganda History
Stephane Baele
Chapter 1. The Strategic Logic of IS' Propaganda: Coherence, Comprehensiveness, and Multidimensionality Haroro Ingram
Chapter 2. Situating IS' Message: A Social and Theological Genealogy
Mehdi Laghmari
Chapter 3. The Matrix of IS' Propaganda: Magazines
Stephane Baele, Katharine Boyd, and Travis Coan
Chapter 4. Shock and Inspire: IS' Propaganda Videos
Stephane Baele, Katharine Boyd, and Travis Coan
Chapter 5. IS' Propaganda and the Social Media: Dissemination, Support, and Resilience
Laura Wakeford and Laura Smith
Chapter 6. From Music to Books, from Pictures to Numbers: The Forgotten - Yet Crucial - Components of IS' Propaganda
Stephane Baele and Charlie Winter
Chapter 7. Countering IS' Propaganda: Challenges and Opportunities
Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Tobias Borck
Chapter 8. Terrorist Propaganda after IS: Learning, Emulation, and Imitation
Paul Gill, Kurt Braddock, Sanaz Zolghadriha, Bettina Rottweiler and Lily D. Cushenbery
Afterword. The Uniqueness of Islamic State
Thomas Hegghammer
