Terrorist Recruitment, Propaganda and Branding

Selling Terror Online
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-24918-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Reihe: Political Violence

This book analyses the marketing techniques that terrorist organisations employ to encourage people to adopt their ideology and become devoted supporters.

The book’s central thesis is that due to the development of digital technologies and social media, terrorist groups are employing innovative marketing techniques and advertising strategies to foster an emotional connection with their audiences, particularly those in younger demographics. By conducting thematic and narrative analyses of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) propagandist magazines, as well as looking at the group’s online communities, the book demonstrates that terrorist groups behave as commercial brands by establishing an emotional connection with their potential recruits. Specifically, groups and their potential supporters follow the logic of emotional choice. The book emphasizes that while ISIS became the first group that discovered and benefited from the power of marketing, it did not have a supernatural power and thus it is possible to find a response to it, which is particularly important now. The book eventually poses a question about whether terrorism has become the product of marketing in the same way as any mainstream consumer product is, and asks what can we do to battle the appeal of marketing-savvy terrorist groups.

This book will be of interest to students of terrorism studies, radicalisation, and propaganda, communication, and security studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kruglova, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Terrorism, Propaganda and Branding: The (In)visible Connection, 1. Emotional Choice: How to Make You "Buy" What You Did Not Plan to, 2. Heroes, Princesses and True Believers: The Images ISIS "Sells", 3. Narrative Advertising: Selling Caliphate Through Stories, 4. Falling in Love with the Caliphate: Self-illusion and Immersion into the Imaginary World, 5. Getting Lost in the Fantasy: "Jihadi culture", Excitement and Bonding, 6. Feeling No Regret: Guilt-Coping Mechanisms in ISIS’s Propaganda Conclusion. Breaking the Terrorist Brand

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Kruglova is a Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford and has a PhD in international studies from Queen’s University Belfast.