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The Center for Strategic Communication (CSC) is an initiative of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. It is composed of an interdisciplinary group of scholars at ASU and partner institutions who are interested in applying knowledge of human communication to issues of countering ideological support for terrorism (CIST), diplomacy and public diplomacy, propaganda and disinformation, and public health.

2023

A randomized controlled trial of a theory-based concussion education video for NCAA Division I athletes.
Health Communication, 38(6), 1090-1098.
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Detecting and measuring the polarization effects of adversarial botnets on Twitter.
Proceedings of the ACM SAC Conference (SAC’23).
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Identifying Behavioral Factors Leading to Differential Polarization Effects of Adversarial Botnets.
CM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review, 23(2), 44-56.
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2022

Perceived organizational influences on Western US collegiate athletes’ attitudes toward concussion risks and concussion reporting.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(2), 169-188.
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“China's Columbus” Was an Imperialist Too: Contesting the Myth of Zheng He.
Small Wars Journal
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2021

STIF: Semi-supervised taxonomy induction using term embeddings and clustering.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (NLPIR 2021).
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The power of local celebritites in the fight against vaccine hesitancy.
Scientific American
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2020

A feature-driven approach for identifying pathogenic social media accounts.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS’20), pp. 26-33, Texas, USA.
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2019

Agentic denial: How athletic teams sustain divergent structures during concussion events.
Small Group Research, 51(3),342-374.
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Labeling Avoidance in Healthcare Decision-Making: How Stakeholders Make Sense of Concussion Events through Sport Narratives.
Health Communication [Electronic Version]
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Promoting the Development of Evidence-based Concussion Education for Power-5 Collegiate Athletes: The Influences of Organizational Elements on Perceived Vestedness.
Communication & Sport
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Socioecological influences on concussion reporting by NCAA Division 1 athletes in high-risk sports.
PLoS One.
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Toward generative narrative models of the course and resolution of conflict.
In P. Davis & A. O’Mahoney (Eds.), Social-behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems(pp. 121-144). New York: John Wiley.
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2018

Performance vs. safety: Understanding the logics of cultural narratives influencing concussion reporting behaviors.
Communication and Sport.
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Vested interests and perceived risk of concussion consequences among Power-5 college athletes.
Health Communication, [Electronic Version]
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2016

Exploring evolving media discourse through event cueing.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 22(1), 220-229.
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More than just a story: Narrative insights into comprehension, ideology and decision-making.
In J. V. Cohen, S. Schatz, H. Freeman, & D. J. Y. Combs (Eds),Modeling Sociocultural Influences on Decision Making: Understanding Conflict, Enabling Stability(pp. 27-42). New York: CRC Press.
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Story Forms Detection in Text through Concept-based Co-clustering.
IEEE SocialCom 2016
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The 21st century strategic communication landscape and its challenges for policymakers.
In S. Jayakumar (Ed.), State, Society and National Security (pp. 171-182). Singapore: S. Rajarathnam School of International Studies.
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The narrative rationality of violent extremism.
Social Science Quarterly 97(1), 9-18
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“Climate change” frames detection and categorization based on generalized concepts.
IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) 2016 (pp. 277-284). IEEE.
International Journal of Semantic Computing, 10(2), 147-166.
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2015

Story detection using generalized concepts and relations.
Proceedings of International Symposium on Foundation of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics (FOSINT-SI).
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2014

De‐romanticizing the Islamic State’s vision of the Caliphate.
In H. Cabayan & S. Canna (Eds.), Multi-method assessment of ISIL(pp. 143-149). Washington, DC: Strategic Multilayer Assessment Group.
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Strategic frames analysis of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense and changes in public opinion.
NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence.
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The N2 Corpus: A Semantically-Annotated Collection of Islamist Extremist Stories.
Proceedings of the 9th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland. 896–902.
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’Counter’ or ‘alternative’: Contesting video narratives of violent islamist extremism.
In K. Winkler & C. Dauber (Eds.), Visual Imagery and Extremist Propaganda in the Online Environment (pp. 105-134). Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute Press.
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2013

A system for ranking organizations using social scale analysis.
Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, 3(3), 313-328.
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Mediated martyrs of the Arab Spring: New media, civil religion and narrative in Tunisia and Egypt.
Journal of Communication, 63(2), 312-332.
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The military interest in narrative.
Sprache und Datenverarbeitung: International Journal for Language Data Processing, 37(1-2), 173-191.
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Understanding sociocultural systems through a narrative lens.
In B. Strong, L. Babin, M. Zbylut & L. Roan (Eds.), Sociocultural Systems: The Next Step in Army Cultural Capability (pp. 71-86) Ft. Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
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2012

A pragmatic framework for studying extremists’ use of cultural narrative.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors in Engineering. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
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A Semantic Triplet Based Story Classifier.
Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), Istanbul, Turkey
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Cooking the books: Strategic inflation of casualty reports by extremists in the Afghanistan conflict.
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 35(5), 368-381.
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Prosumption, transmediation and resistance: terrorism and man-hunting in Southeast Asia.
American Behavioral Scientist, 56(5), 488-510
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Rhetorical charms: The promise and pitfalls of humor and ridicule as strategies to counter extremist narratives.
Perspectives on Terrorism, 6(1), 70-79
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2011

Islamist feminism: Constructing gender identities in postcolonial Muslim societies.
Politics and Religion, 4 (3), 503-525.
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Muslim Brotherhood
In In J. I. Ross (Ed.), Religion and Violence: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict. Antiquity to the Present (pp. 482-487). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
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The gendered construction and transmediation of a terrorist’s life story.
In T. Kuhn (Ed.), Matters of communication: political, cultural and technological challenges. New York: Hampton Books.
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The war of ideas and the battle of narratives: A comparison of extremist storytelling structures.
Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies 11, 215 – 223.
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Understanding the role of narrative in extremist strategic communication.
In L. Fenstermacher and S. Canna (Eds.), Countering violent extremism: Scientific Methods & Strategies (pp. 36-43). Dayton, OH: Air Force Research Laboratory.
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Youths in violent extremist discourse: Mediated identifications and interventions.
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33(12), 1104-1123.
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2009

Strategic communication on a rugged landscape: Principles for finding the right message.
In Strategic Communications for Combating Terrorism (101-114). Ankara, Turkey: NATO Centre of Excellence Combating Terrorism.
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2008

Complex systems problems in the War of Ideas.
Perspectives on Terrorism, 3(2), 6-9.
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2006

Using activity focus networks to pressure terrorist organizations.
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 12(1), 35-49.
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Weapons of mass persuasion: Communicating against terrorist ideology.
Connections: The Quarterly Journal, 53(3), 93-104
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