You have to admit that whomever is in back of this is very good at his job of being able to gain members from so many different countries. There has to be a campaign to fight back, but it will entail many brilliant minds working on it.
Study Examines Shifts in Islamic State's Media Campaign
FILE - An image distributed by Islamic State militants on social media on August 25, 2015 purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
Cecily Hilleary
October 09, 2015 6:40 PM
The rapid growth of the self-styled Islamic State is due in part to a sophisticated media campaign that has attracted tens of thousands of fighters from more than 100 countries, and that number is growing by the day. A newly released study of the IS media "machine" shows it to be carefully orchestrated for maximum appeal.
Charlie Winter, a senior researcher at the London-based Quilliam Foundation, collected and analyzed hundreds of IS media messages, including tweets, photographs, audio statements, online articles and videos. He then sorted them into six basic narratives: mercy, belonging, brutality, victimhood, war and utopia. The result is the study "Documenting the Virtual 'Caliphate.' "
“I was expecting a preponderant amount of focus on utopia,” said Winter. “I was expecting less brutality than people speak about. But what I wasn’t expecting was the sheer volume of it all. It really indicated to me that a lot more effort than I think people give the Islamic State credit for is being put into the propaganda operation.”
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Study Examines Shifts in Islamic State's Media Campaign?
Study Examines Shifts in Islamic State's Media Campaign
FILE - An image distributed by Islamic State militants on social media on August 25, 2015 purports to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
Cecily Hilleary
October 09, 2015 6:40 PM
The rapid growth of the self-styled Islamic State is due in part to a sophisticated media campaign that has attracted tens of thousands of fighters from more than 100 countries, and that number is growing by the day. A newly released study of the IS media "machine" shows it to be carefully orchestrated for maximum appeal.
Charlie Winter, a senior researcher at the London-based Quilliam Foundation, collected and analyzed hundreds of IS media messages, including tweets, photographs, audio statements, online articles and videos. He then sorted them into six basic narratives: mercy, belonging, brutality, victimhood, war and utopia. The result is the study "Documenting the Virtual 'Caliphate.' "
“I was expecting a preponderant amount of focus on utopia,” said Winter. “I was expecting less brutality than people speak about. But what I wasn’t expecting was the sheer volume of it all. It really indicated to me that a lot more effort than I think people give the Islamic State credit for is being put into the propaganda operation.”
Continue reading at:
Study Examines Shifts in Islamic State's Media Campaign?
