{"id":26427,"date":"2014-06-21T07:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T12:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26427"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:57:55","slug":"isis-displays-mastery-of-modern-social-media-recruiting-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/isis-displays-mastery-of-modern-social-media-recruiting-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS displays mastery of modern social media recruiting techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/2014\/06\/i-dont-want-to-fight-with-isis-but-if-i-did-their-campaign-looks-pretty-enticing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lara Prendergast<\/a> on the successful techniques of recruiting-by-social-media being used by ISIS propagandists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday evening, I returned home, made a cup of tea and slumped down to catch up on the day\u2019s news. A piece on Twitter caught my eye. Posted by <em>Channel 4<\/em>, it was titled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/isis-iraq-social-media-jihad-billion-campaign-recruit-video\" target=\"_blank\">#Jihad: how ISIS is using social media to win support<\/a>&#8216;. Click. Soon I was learning about how ISIS was calling for global support via a sophisticated social media campaign, branded the &#8216;one billion campaign&#8217;. Click, click. Onto <em>YouTube<\/em>, where I found graphic videos recorded and uploaded by ISIS members. Click, click, click. Ten minutes later, and I was on <em>Twitter<\/em>, being recruited by jihadis to come join them.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, I am not about to head to Syria or Iraq. But I was struck by how quickly I found material asking me to show support and help the cause. If I was an impressionable young Muslim man, perhaps I would have found it alluring. I came across a podcast uploaded by the British jihadi Abu Summayyah al-Britani, which suggested that fighting in Syria was better than playing <em>Call of Duty<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery ISIS promotes is also absorbing, in a dark, sinister way. The black and white flag is the new Jolly Roger; balaclavas and AK47s the new uniform. &#8216;Come fight with us, brother&#8217; it screams. It looks dangerous and exciting. This belligerent propaganda has zipped round the world at an unprecedented speed. It&#8217;s a potent mix of graphic imagery and piratic behaviour blended with a fanatical message. It&#8217;s hard not to look, no matter how much you try.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Prendergast on the successful techniques of recruiting-by-social-media being used by ISIS propagandists: Yesterday evening, I returned home, made a cup of tea and slumped down to catch up on the day\u2019s news. A piece on Twitter caught my eye. Posted by Channel 4, it was titled &#8216;#Jihad: how ISIS is using social media to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,370,11],"tags":[982,47,269,593,310,481],"class_list":["post-26427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-middle-east","category-religion","tag-isis","tag-islam","tag-propaganda","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26429,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}