h4Explores how Jihad, political violence and audio-visual media are entangled in particular ways as discursive formations/h4ulliFosters critical perspectives on the invocation of a narrow ...understanding of jihad and political violence in different social contexts/liliPoints to the operation of media and aesthetic means to articulate or defy notions of jihad in the context of political violence/liliComprises 16 case studies on forms of knowledge production, aesthetic manifestations, socio-political enactments, and archival practices that shape the entanglement of jihad, political violence, and media/liliPresents empirically-grounded research from the perspective of Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Media Studies, and Political Science/liliAdvances reflections on knowledge production and ethical challenges of research in this field/li/ulpThe entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the contributors critically reflect on the identification of jihad with political violence, address the academic, legal, political and broader public production of knowledge on this topic, examine the aesthetic formations involved in the mediation and reaffirmation of this narrow understanding, explore the experiential worlds of people whose ideas and actions are labelled as and affected by notions of violent jihad, and illuminate the institutional and media contexts (e.g. of archives) in which an entanglement of jihad and political violence takes effect, with profound consequences./ppThis volume decentres dominant discourses on so-called jihadist actors and deradicalization contexts to offer more nuanced understandings of the political and socio-cultural contexts./p
In recent years, new forms of public self-documentation have become popular on social media platforms and especially through so-called influencers, forming their own media cultural microcosm. Even ...though YouTube has become emblematic of this cultural technique, media self-documentations are also formative for other services such as Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat. Robert Dörre understands the emergence of these self-designs as an aesthetic practice and traces the media-historical shifts that public self-documentation has experienced on the Internet. In order to make these specific aesthetics, rituals, motifs, and economies accessible to media cultural studies, the work approaches the phenomenon from five perspectives: The reception as authentic self, the self as part of social media, the self as brand, the serial self, and the self as amateur and artist.
AN EPILOGUE OF IMAGES Robert Dörre
Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media,
10/2023
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
The release of images showing violence, torture and death always provokes strong reactions and, subsequently, concentrates attention in the media, academia and the public sphere. Accordingly, much of ...the research focuses on the creation and dissemination of such images, but rarely on what becomes of them after they have reached their peak of attention. This article, instead, is devoted to the afterlife of images of violence. My reflections, therefore, concentrate less on how images of violence enter the digital world, and how they spread there, and more on how these images were afterwards discussed, theorised, and archived. Using Daesh’s¹ videos
INTRODUCTION Günther, Christoph; Dörre, Robert; Pfeifer, Simone
Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media,
10/2023
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
This edited volume is one of the outputs of the interdisciplinary junior research group ‘Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation’. From 2017 to 2022, the ...project facilitated collaborative work by six researchers with backgrounds in film and media studies, Islamic studies, social and cultural anthropology, and information sciences. The project sought to explore the ways in which groups fighting in the name of jihad communicate their cause through audiovisual media and how people engage with these communicative endeavours. These key questions reflect the field of tension in which our research operated: between our ambitions to
