by editor | Oct 9, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Popular Culture
by Steven R. Corman and Kris Acheson In what appears to be an ongoing effort to modernize its strategic communication and public diplomacy efforts, the U.S. State Department recently launched its official blog, called Dipnote. In the two weeks of operation the blog...
by editor | Sep 18, 2007 | Analysis, Popular Culture
by Matthew Morris The latest video from Osama Bin Laden sounds less like a threat from a terrorist responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans and more like the speech of a leftist university professor or populist politician. In fact, the speech carries no...
by editor | Jun 5, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Popular Culture
By Ian Derk The Voice of America is a news station broadcast around the world in different languages. After the first broadcast into Nazi Germany in 1942, Voice of America claimed to broadcast “the truth.†Corey Pein describes the station as similar to “a...
by editor | May 29, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Military, Popular Culture
by Angela Trethewey Then In Surging on the Cyberspace Battlefield (COMOPS, May 8th) Christina Smith praised the military’s openness to both positive and negative responses to videos posted on the military’s YouTube channel, Multi-National Force Iraq (MNFIRAQ). She...
by editor | May 8, 2007 | Analysis, Media, Military, Popular Culture
by Christina M. Smith Social networking sites such as YouTube permit user-created content to be posted on the internet for audiences to view via streaming video. With the recent purchase of YouTube by Google, its capability and reach has dramatically increased. One of...
by editor | Apr 24, 2007 | Analysis, Framing, Popular Culture, Sensemaking
by Robert D. McPhee Despite many clear differences in motivation and process, there seems also to be a continuity between the isolated nut who commits terrorific murder as at Virginia Tech and the terrorism campaigns of organizations like al-Qaeda. The fanatic who...
