{"title":"Ethics in Gender Online Research: A Facebook Case Study","authors":"C. Carvalho","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the role of researchers in online environments, namely Facebook, and their ethical responsibilities towards fieldwork in a broad sense, their interlocutors, colleagues, themselves, and their families. The aim is to highlight the relationship between methodology, ethical considerations, and political circumstances in the realm of jihadi audiovisualities. By addressing actual methodological and ethical limitations experienced while conducting research offline and on Facebook, I will further the practical understanding of radicalization processes and entanglement with jihadi media. The study has its own ethic and theoretical limitations since it is anchored in an empirical case study that represents a novelty in terms of methods and results. The sum of the application of these methods and creative solutions may inspire new scientific approaches for digital ethnography, digital ethics, and gender studies and may, in particular, help to conceptualize jihadi audiovisuality as a field of research.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122452697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anāshīd at the Crossroad Between the Organisational and the Private","authors":"Carin Berg","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Islamist organizations often use anashid, a form of poetic chants, as a political tool. Since music is a contested issue in many Muslim contexts, anashid is one of few accepted musical genres. Hence, the usage of anashid is not only limited to the organizational sphere, but traverse the borders between the public domain of the organizations into the private sphere of the supporters. Through the examples of Hamas and Hizbullah, this chapter shows how the usage of anashid interacts in the public and private domains through the theoretical definitions of the purposive (intentional and strategic) and effective (inducing connotations) dimensions of how music can be used for political purposes. Anashid is explored through empirical data gathered within the milieus of Hamas and Hizbullah.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128200353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Enacting Violence: Contesting Public Spheres With Appropriations of is Execution Videos","authors":"Simone Pfeifer, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Patricia Wevers","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Since the height of ISIS media production from 2014-2017 their promotional videos have become known for their graphic violence and drastic portrayal of beheadings. These iconic executions have been widely appropriated and re-enacted in different contexts by Muslim artists and activists in Europe and the SWANA region as well as by the right-wing “identitarian” movement. In this contribution, we examine the iconic features of IS beheadings in selected re-enactments, ranging from humour to serious (religious-)political engagements, as well as the creative techniques and practices that different actors use in their reinterpretations of that violence. We point to similarities used in different re-enactments while showing how re-enactments of violence may differ according to the perspective of the actors and contexts in which they are set. We relate our examples to discussions on cultural resistance, power and hierarchy, and discussions on (digital) public spheres, to argue that re-enacting images of violence can not only be used as a memetic form of cultural resistance to counter IS iconography but can also be used to transform those ‘operative’ images into different forms of resistance and hatred. We therefore recognise that re-enactments and their mediations can become actors with an existence in their own right.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115759657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contested Chants: The Nashīd Ṣalīl Al-Ṣawārim and its Appropriations","authors":"A. Dick, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we present an in-depth analysis of the well-known IS nashīdṢalīl al-Ṣawārim as well as a range of audiovisual appropriations, including a tutorial-like piano cover, an inverted (MIDIFLIP) version, a hardcore remix, an animated gamification version, a re-enactment of an IS beheading and a Misheard Lyrics version. All of these examples of audiovisual appropriation form a continuum of sonic and visual appropriation, wherein one form is dominant with regard to the complexity of the produced sounds or visuals. Central to this analysis is Al-Rawi’s (2016) concept of Anti-ISIS Humor, according to which these appropriations represent instruments to contest and renegotiate prevailing structures of power. The authors thus frame appropriations of IS anāshīd in the context of cultural resistance, showing how these practices challenge not only IS anāshīd but also IS as a whole, with its Salafi-Wahhabi-inspired doctrine and interpretation of Islam.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122130598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Research on Radicalisation Using Social Media Content: Data Protection Regulations as Challenges and Opportunities","authors":"Manjana Sold, Hande Abay Gaspar, Julian Junk","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of data retrieved from social media has become more and more important. However, working with social media and audio-visual formats as data sources has its own challenges. Communication patterns are increasingly diverse shifting to closed spaces and between platforms, not only but in particular for those who are radicalized or becoming radicalized. Consequently, ethical and legal issues are pertinent to discourses about the feasibility and acceptance of scientific studies in online environments. However, despite limitations and challenges, legal and moral guidelines provide also opportunities and flexibility particularly for researchers aiming to explore virtual space. This chapter summarizes the current debates on weighing legal and moral principles. It provides guidance of the various requirements of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related ethical considerations researchers face when designing empirical research using data from social media platforms. In a solution-oriented way, we give an overview of some key ethical and legal considerations that can serve as a basis for prudently designed empirical research projects. The overview is informed by our research experiences in the field of Salafist jihadist radicalisation in Germany.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"80 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127179856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Performativity of Violence: Power and Retaliatory Humiliation in Islamic State (is) Beheading Videos Between 2014 and 2017","authors":"Michael Krona","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The significance of visual propaganda in war has never been as debated as since the Islamic State (IS) started gaining global attention for its sophisticated media campaigns in 2014. Although IS propaganda contains several narratives, the videos of beheadings have for years been at the centre of attention. This graphic violence involves deliberate choices in terms of image composition, lighting, camera-angles, and overall editing techniques deployed to reach maximum effects its targeted audiences. These videos are not only evidence of tactical choices in hybrid warfare, but also mediated communicative artefacts. This chapter aims to dissect this mediation of performative violence: the visualization of beheadings as multi-layered media artefacts, produced with the dual objective to incite fear among adversaries and strengthen the in-group identity of the organization. How videos of IS beheadings are designed is crucial to understand the role of visual propaganda in IS contemporary warfare. The chapter is based on qualitative visual analysis of beheading videos produced by IS official media wings between 2014 and 2017 with particular focus on image composition and sequencing, contextualized through a theoretical discussion about how power and retaliatory humiliation are constructed through the visual performativity of violence.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130012337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Speaking, Remaining Silent and Being Heard: Framing Research, Positionality and Publics in the Jihadi Field","authors":"M. Koning, A. Moors, A. Navest","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In April 2016 we published an explorative article about the marriages of Dutch-speaking women in jihadi-held areas in Syria. In January 2017, this article became the focus of a huge media hype in the Netherlands and beyond, after a national newspaper presented our work as a case of how cyber-jihadists had been able to influence academic research. Within days, a series of parliamentary questions were asked, followed by an audit commissioned by the Board of the University of Amsterdam. The Board concluded that we had complied with all ethics requirements. In this multi-vocal contribution, we reflect on this affair by making extensive use of posts from our three-person WhatsApp group. We present the unfolding of the affair, how we were addressed, individually and collectively, and how we responded. While we argued against publicly investigating personal (including religious) backgrounds of researchers, the force of the security discourse rendered it nearly impossible to engage in a discussion about content. Not only did we need to engage with different publics, we were also addressed in different ways by the very same publics. Only by persistently addressing sub-publics and publishing about the affair, we were able to undo some of the damage.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134104190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appropriation in Islamic State Propaganda: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework of Types and Dimensions","authors":"Bernd Zywietz, Yorck Beese","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of ‘appropriation’ offers an insightful analytical approach to so-called Islamic State’ (IS)’s media work and texts as propaganda. However, ‘appropriation’ bears a vast ambiguous range of meanings. Therefore, we propose three broad types of appropriation in order to clarify the term: interpretative, practical, and expressive appropriation. After discussing the notion of ISIS as an ideologically and epistemologically threatening ‘appropriator’ and criticizing the notion or metaphor of IS’s “Hollywood” propaganda we distinguish and exemplify different dimensions of appropriation in the area of IS’s ‘public relations’. By doing so and based on our research of IS video propaganda we aim to offer a systematic framework to describe and analyse jihadi communication as strategic or rhetoric communication as much as a cultural representative means of production and expression.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128962270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Darkness into the Light: Narratives of Conversion in Jihadi Videos","authors":"Christoph Günther","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines a specific format used by Jihadi-Salafi groups to offer an epistemic and ontological framework that helps people setting their individual biography in relation to this social collective. I trace the (re-)creation of two autobiographical narratives of religious conversion as they are presented in two videos authored by al-Muhajirūn and the Islamic State between 2016 and 2017. The epistemological interest of this chapter is to reconstruct the appropriation of key concepts from Islamic intellectual history and the teleological strategies employed in the audiovisual processing of these personal narrations. I will show the ways in which the videos’ authors use audiovisual means to construct and enhance the authenticity and plausibility of these individuals’ personal stories and their spiritual experiences.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130572834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Nashīd’ Between Islamic Chanting And Jihadi Hymns: Continuities and Transformations","authors":"Ines Weinrich","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467513.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Nashīd in its English spelling nasheed and mediatised on the internet is a relatively new phenomenon. Nashīd as a musical practice, by contrast, is old. This chapter analyses nashīd as both a technical term and as a vocal genre. Today, the term nashīd may denote quite different sonic manifestations, ranging from traditional praise songs to the prophet Muḥammad and prayers to religious pop songs and military marches. The chapter focuses on the developments since the early twentieth century and examines the musical roots and styles of the different types of nashīd that are known today. It offers a brief glimpse into traditional practices of nashīd (i.e. inshād) and suggests a categorisation for the different manifestations of modern nashīd, based on musical characteristics and functions. These are (1) political hymns, (2) traditional inshād, (3) popularised nasheed and, finally, (4) the Jihadi anāshīd (sg. nashīd), which musically draw from all three preceding categories.","PeriodicalId":346265,"journal":{"name":"Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133947089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}