Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6751-3 (ISBN)
ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts.
Divided into four thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.
Christoph Gunther is the Principal Investigator of the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz. Christoph's research interests include religio-political movements in the modern Middle East, visual cultures and iconography, and the sociology of religion. His research has been published in the International Journal of Communication, Sociology of Islam, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, among others. Simone Pfeifer is Postdoctoral Researcher in the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). In her research, she focuses on everyday life of Muslims in Germany, and gender specific and affective dimensions in the appropriation of Islamic videos and images in social media. She recently published a book on social media in transnational everyday life on social and visual media practices, kinship and migration of Senegalese in Berlin and Dakar: Soziale Medien im transnationalen Alltag (transcript, 2020).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 60 B/W illustrations 20 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-6751-2 / 1474467512 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-6751-3 / 9781474467513 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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