Reconceptualizing Propaganda in the Internet Age: An Examination of Terrorist Online Propaganda

Authors : Jack JURİCH, Ebru KAYAALP

Pages : 93-108

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Publication Date : 2017-12-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Easy and relatively unrestricted access to the Internet has introduced numerous transformations in the way individuals interact with each other and their environment. Prominent among these changes are those related to communication studies and its substrata of propaganda. A large number of studies, which have analyzed the online terrorist propaganda activities, discuss the issue within the framework of how the terrorists “use” or “exploit” new media technologies for their purposes. What is strongly highlighted in these studies is the instrumental role of the Internet in facilitating the success of terrorist propaganda. In contrast to this standard view of social media and Internet as a medium of communication, drawing from Science and Technology Studies, we offer an alternative perspective of human and technical actors as being mutually intertwined and equally possessed of agency in the process of propagandistic communications. Thus, this study discusses how Internet has facilitated sweeping changes across the entire spectrum of propaganda, ranging from production and dissemination to reception. The online propaganda and counterpropaganda campaigns currently being waged online by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS and the US State Department are presented and contrasted as examples of the old and new models of propaganda
Keywords : Çevrimiçi Propaganda, Terörizm, Anahtar Sözcükler Irak Şam islam Devleti İşİD, Amerika Dışişleri BakanlıŞı Küresel Etkileşim Merkezi, Gönderici Alıcı Propaganda Modeli, Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmaları

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