So, here’s my reading list on jihadi imagery, to supplement my lists on poetry, dreams and music. I have not included general works on jihadi propaganda or internet use, nor have I included the large literature on visual representations of jihadis in mainstream media or cinema. I also haven’t included blogs (such as Views from the Occident) that contain primary sources on jihadi visual culture. As always, I welcome feedback on items I have missed.
Christopher
Anzalone, From “Martyrdom” Videos to Jihadi Journalism in Somalia:
The Rapid Evolution of Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen’s Multimedia
Mike Ball, Documenting
Acts of Cruelty
Arthur
Beifuss, Branding Terror: The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and
Terrorist Organizations
Neville
Bolt, The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries
Lianne Kennedy
Boudali, Afshon Ostovar, and Jarret Brachman, Islamic Imagery Project: Visual
Motifs in Jihadi Internet Propaganda
Maura Conway
and Lisa McInerney, Jihadi Video and Auto-Radicalisation: Evidence from an Exploratory
YouTube Study
Cori Dauber, The Importance of Images to America’s Fight against Violent Jihadis
Cori E.
Dauber, YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop
on Every Computer
Coi E.
Dauber, The Impact of Visual Images: Addendum
James Der
Derian, Imaging terror: logos, pathos and ethos
Asiem El Difraoui, Al Qaida par l’image ou la prophétie du
martyre
Andrew Exum,
The Spectacle of War: Insurgent Video Propaganda and Western Response,
1990-Present
James
Farwell, Jihadi Video in the “War of Ideas”
Jeff
Ferrell, Chris Greer, and Yvonne Jewkes, Hip Hop Graffiti, Mexican Murals and the
War on Terror
Jonathan Fighel,
Radical Islamic Internet Propaganda: Concepts, Idioms and Visual Motifs
Cecilie
Finsnes, What is Audio-Visual Jihadi Propaganda? An Overview of the Content of
FFI’s Jihadi Video Database
Tim Foxley,
The Taliban’s Propaganda Activities
Rosaviola Frohneberg and Guido Steinberg, Videopropaganda
und Radikalisierung
Christiane Gruber
and Sune Haugbolle (eds), Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of
the Image
Madeleine
Gruen, Innovative Recruitment and Indoctrination Tactics by Extremists: Video Games,
Hip Hop, and the World Wide Web
Mohammed
Hafez, Martyrdom Mythology in Iraq: How Jihadists Frame Suicide Terrorism in
Videos and Biographies
Martin
Harrow, Video-Recorded Decapitations: A Seemingly Perfect Terrorist Tactic that
did not Spread
Andrew
Hill, Hostage Videos in the War on Terror
Eric
Hiltner, Insurgent Media
Philip Holtmann,
The Symbols of Online Jihad
Walid El
Houri and Dima Saber, Filming Resistance: A Hezbollah Strategy
IntelCenter,
Evolution of Jihadi Video
IntelCenter, Jihadi Master Video Guide (JMVG)
IntelCenter,
IntelCenter Rebel Logo ID Guide for Syria
Aarti Iyer,
Understanding the Power of the Picture: The Effect of Image Content on
Emotional and Political Responses to Terrorism
Rita Katz
and Josh Devon, Jihad on YouTube
Daniel
Kimmage and Kathleen Ridolfo, The War of Images and Ideas: How Sunni Insurgents
in Iraq and their Supporters Worldwide are Using the Media
Alexander
Meleagrou-Hitchens, Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy
Hanne
Miriam Larsen, Hostage Videos: Tropes of Terror as Social Practice
Pete
Lentini and Muhammad Bakashmar, Jihadist Beheading: A Convergence of
Technology, Theology, and Teleology?
Sue Malvem
and Gabriel Koureas, Terrorist Transgressions: Gender and the Visual Culture of
the Terrorist
Ibrahim
al-Marashi, Sadrabiliyya: The Visual Narrative of Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Islamist
Politics and Insurgency in Iraq
Bouchra
Oualla, Strategies of Argumentations in the Propaganda of Jihad: The Analysis
of a Youtube Jihad Video
Nicholas J.
O’Shaughnessy and Paul R Baines, Selling Terror: The Symbolization and
Positioning of Jihad
Dawn
Perlmutter, Mujahideen Blood Rituals: The Religious and Forensic Symbolism of
Al Qaeda Beheading
Dawn
Perlmutter, Mujahideen Desecration: Beheadings, Mutilation & Muslim
Iconoclasm
Nico
Prucha, Is this the most successful release of a jihadist video ever?
Lucas
Régner, The YouTube-Born Terrorist
Marc
Reilly, Pornography of the Dead
Diana
Rieger, Lena Frischlich, and Gary Bente, Propaganda 2.0: Psychological Effects
of Right-Wing and Islamic Extremist Internet Videos
Nathan
Roger, Image Warfare in the War on Terror
Arab Salem,
Edna Reid, and Hsinchun Chen, Multimedia Content Coding and Analysis:
Unraveling the Content of Jihadi Extremist Groups’ Videos
Aymenn J. Al-Tamimi,
Archive of Jabhat al-Nusra Billboards and Murals
Aaron
Weisburd, Comparison of Visual Motifs in Jihadi and Cholo Videos on YouTube
Carol
Winkler and Cori E. Dauber, Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online
Environment