Archive for 'Research'
Why Story is Not Narrative
By Jeffry R. Halverson I’ll admit that I slip sometimes in everyday conversation and use the word “story” as a synonym for “narrative.” A lot of people do it. But I should know better. There’s an important difference between the two. For the average conversation the difference doesn’t really matter much. However, when it comes [...]
Posted: December 8th, 2011 under Analysis, Narrative, Religion, Research, Strategic Comm..
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Youths in Violent Extremist Discourse
by Steven R. Corman CSC researchers Pauline Cheong and Jeff Halverson have just published a paper in the journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism that will be of interest to readers of this blog. The paper examines al Qaeda texts from 1996-2009 to determine strategies used by the group to construct a pro-radical identity for [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2011 under Identification, Recruitment, Religion, Research, Strategic Comm..
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Online Mobilization by Radical Groups
by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline ties.”* The study looks at neo-Nazis and radical environmentalists (NN/RE) in the West, but because it potentially sheds some light on [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2009 under Counterterrorism, Media, Research, Terrorism 2.0.
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15 Percent Think U.S. Did 9/11
by Steven R. Corman Worldpublicopinon.org has just released the results of a study of world opinion about who committed the 9/11 attacks. On average, 46% think AQ did it, 15% think we did it to ourselves, 7% think Israel did it, 7% think someone else did it, and 25% don’t know. Here is the complete [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2008 under Research, Sensemaking.
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Minerva Followup
by Steven R. Corman Yesterday I participated in a Blogger’s Rountable discussion with Dr. Thomas Mahnken, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy, about the DoD’s Minerva program.  The audio from the roundtable was supposed to be up immediately after the event, but it’s not there yet as I’m posting. Perhaps it will be up by the [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Defense Dept., Research.
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Minerva on the Cheap?
by Steven R. Corman I just got off a blogger’s roundtable teleconference with Thomas Mahnken, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning (hat-tip to Matt for the heads-up about it). He was discussing the Minerva program, outlined by Secretary Gates in a speech last month. Gates, a former university president, wants the social sciences [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2008 under Defense Dept., Research.
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