by lundry | Apr 25, 2013 | Analysis, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communication, Media, Narrative, Popular Culture, Sensemaking
By Chris Lundry It has been over a week since the grisly bombing at the Boston Marathon, and with one perpetrator killed and another captured, analysts are now searching for the “why” and “how” answers. How did a seemingly well-adjusted young man fall under the...
by editor | Mar 9, 2012 | Africa, Analysis, Counterterrorism, Popular Culture
by R. Bennett Furlow On March 5th, 2012 the non-profit organization Invisible Children (IC) released a short film which quickly went viral. Kony 2012 is the name of the film and campaign by Invisible Children to raise the profile of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s...
by lundry | Feb 13, 2012 | Analysis, Indonesia, Media, Narrative, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia, Terrorism 2.0
by Chris Lundry Indonesian Islamist extremist supporters ar Rahmah posted a story today (2-13) on their website and Facebook page about the hacker group Anonymous’ plans for a cyber-attack on Israel. The story (here) links to the Anonymous YouTube video announcing...
by lundry | Jun 3, 2011 | Image, Indonesia, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia
By Chris Lundry It was bound to happen: London’s Daily Mail reported yesterday that the face of Osama bin Laden appeared on a Londoner’s piece of toast. I have been fascinated with how the image of Osama bin Laden became a pop cultural phenomenon after 9-11 in some...
by editor | Oct 27, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Politics, Popular Culture, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Lisa Braverman A couple of weeks ago as I skimmed the news, I saw the freshly-released images of the Park51 Community Center (colloquially known as the “Ground Zero Mosque”). In the same sitting, I also performed my semi-regular check of a former professor’s...
by halverson | May 7, 2010 | Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, Religion, State Dept.
by Jeffry R. Halverson Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking about the diplomatic potential of Muslim hip-hop when I posted a blog about it for COMOPS Journal back in September of 2009. Recently we heard from Tyson Amir, one of the Muslim artists that I featured...