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ISIS’s media strategy as image warfare: Strategic messaging over time and across platforms
Communication and the Public ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 , DOI: 10.1177/2057047319829587
Moran Yarchi 1
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The media plays a crucial role in contemporary conflicts because an image war is occurring alongside the military confrontation. The Islamic state of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) sets a prime example for the usage of image as part of its fighting strategy, using various platforms to communicate its narrative. This study evaluates ISIS’s image front by analyzing its messages promoted through various online communication platforms: audio statements made by ISIS leaders, official videos, Dabiq and Rumiyah magazines, Islamic chants (nasheeds), and Amaq news reports. The findings indicate that ISIS uses messages strategically in an attempt to create and maintain its image as a powerful organization. The three main themes are power projection, violence, and Islamic religious messages (while different emphases are placed on various platforms). Most messages target Muslims, while others (usually threats) target the organization’s various enemies. It appears that ISIS invests considerable resources and efforts into promoting its narrative as part of the image war—projecting its power, based on religious arguments, on one hand, and demonizing and threatening its enemies on the other, using repeated themes, descriptions, metaphors, and visual images (videos, pictures, and infographics). The study’s analysis indicates that ISIS puts a lot of emphasis on the media/image aspects of its battle, and uses all of the tools in its tool box in an attempt to succeed in the image war, a central front in contemporary conflicts.

中文翻译:

ISIS的图像战媒体策略:随着时间跨平台的战略性消息传递

媒体在当代冲突中起着至关重要的作用,因为与军事对抗同时发生了图像战争。伊拉克和沙姆伊斯兰国(ISIS)通过使用各种平台传达其叙事,在使用图像作为其战斗策略的一部分方面树立了典范。这项研究通过分析各种在线交流平台宣传的信息来评估ISIS的形象形象:ISIS领导人发表的音频声明,官方视频,Dabiq和Rumiyah杂志,伊斯兰圣歌(nasheeds)和Amaq新闻报道。调查结果表明,ISIS战略性地使用消息来尝试创建和维护其作为强大组织的形象。三个主要主题是权力投射,暴力和伊斯兰宗教信息(不同的重点放在各个平台上)。大多数信息以穆斯林为目标,而其他信息(通常为威胁)则以该组织的各种敌人为目标。ISIS似乎投入了大量资源和精力来促进其叙事,这是图像战争的一部分-一方面基于宗教论点投射其力量,另一方面通过重复使用主题,描述和隐喻来妖魔化和威胁其敌人以及视觉图像(视频,图片和信息图表)。该研究的分析表明,ISIS十分重视其战斗的媒体/图像方面,并使用其工具箱中的所有工具来试图成功取得图像战争的胜利,而图像战争是当代冲突的中心战线。ISIS似乎投入了大量资源和精力来促进其叙事,这是图像战争的一部分-一方面基于宗教论点投射其力量,另一方面通过重复使用主题,描述和隐喻来妖魔化和威胁其敌人以及视觉图像(视频,图片和信息图表)。该研究的分析表明,ISIS十分重视其战斗的媒体/图像方面,并使用其工具箱中的所有工具来试图成功取得图像战争的胜利,而图像战争是当代冲突的中心战线。ISIS似乎投入了大量资源和精力来促进其叙事,这是图像战争的一部分-一方面基于宗教争论来投射其力量,另一方面使用重复的主题,描述和隐喻来妖魔化和威胁其敌人以及视觉图像(视频,图片和信息图表)。该研究的分析表明,ISIS十分重视其战斗的媒体/图像方面,并使用其工具箱中的所有工具来试图成功取得图像战争的胜利,而图像战争是当代冲突的中心战线。
更新日期:2019-03-01
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