ISIS Propaganda

Stephane J. Baele is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security at the University of Exeter, where he is deputy director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies. His research focuses on the role of language and images in political violence, from a multidisciplinary and mixed-methods perspective. He also conducts research on International Relations theories and research ethics. Katharine A. Boyd is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Exeter and an academic staff member of Exeter's Q-Step Centre, which works to train and promote quantitative methods among social science students. She is the Criminology Program Director and a member of the Policing Evidence Group at the University of Exeter. Her research covers terrorism and policing violence (domestic abuse and use of force), as well as evidence-based policy. Travis G. Coan is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Politics at the University of Exeter. He is co-director of the Exeter Q-Step Centre, an interdisciplinary center focusing on quantitative social science, and he holds academic affiliations with the Centre for Elections, Media, and Parties and the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. While Dr. Coan has published on a wide-range of topics, his core research examines questions in the areas of political and environmental communication.

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