Ayse Deniz LokmanogluNorthwestern University | NU · Center for Communication and Public Policy
Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Misinformation and Extremism
Skills and Expertise
Education
August 2017 - May 2020
August 2010 - May 2012
August 2005 - January 2009
Publications
Publications (20)
A growing amount of literature is being devoted to interrogating gendered dynamics in both violent extremism and terrorism, contributing to the integration of international and feminist security. This includes how such dynamics can shape differences in the motivations and participation of women and men. By critically analysing ideological gender co...
Recognizing the importance of the Arabic publication for reaching a key target audience for ISIS, this expansive study of al-Naba’s text-based content will add to the scholarship of non-state actor communication using a mixed methodology of unsupervised machine learning and rhetorical analysis. First, it uses the ANTMN methodology to identify the f...
According to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, nonwhites, globalists and elites are plotting to eliminate the white race and its dominance through anti-white policies and increased immigration. In that context, abortion among white women is perceived by white nationalists (WN) as a betrayal of their “biological” and “traditional” gender role...
This chapter explores the intersection of white and male supremacy, both of which misrepresent women as genetically and intellectually inferior and reduce them to reproductive and/or sexual functions. The white power movement historically has been characterized by sexism and misogyny, as evidenced by the movement’s attempts to retain European herit...
Resistance to vaccines has hindered attempts to contain and prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases for centuries. More recently, however, the term “vaccine hesitancy” has been used to describe not necessarily outright resistance but also a delay in acceptance or uncertainty regarding vaccines. Given concerns about hesitancy and its impact on vacc...
Introduction
Research has indicated a growing resistance to vaccines among U.S. conservatives and Republicans. Following past successes of the far-right in mainstreaming health misinformation, this study tracks almost two decades of vaccine discourse on the extremist, white nationalist (WN) online message-board Stormfront. We examine the argumentat...
When a president announces troop withdrawal, some factors change. Financial and human costs fall, and relations among international actors change. To expand contemporary understandings of how the influence of troop withdrawal announcements may extend beyond state-based media portrayals, and to explore additional factors that help explain changes in...
Recognizing that militant, non-state groups utilize social media and online platforms to reach members, sympathizers, and potential recruits, state agencies and social media corporations now increasingly regulate access to accounts affiliated with such groups. Scholars examining deplatforming efforts have, to date, focused on the extent of audience...
This bibliography contains books, edited volumes, journal articles, book chapters, theses, grey literature, and other resources on rebel governance, which refers to the informal takeover of state authority and political-administrative activities by insurgent non-state actors. The publications compiled herein represent the major thematic fields of r...
Media framing of epidemics was found to influence public perceptions and behaviors in experiments, yet no research has been conducted on real-world behaviors during public health crises. We examined the relationship between Italian news media coverage of COVID-19 and compliance with stay-at-home orders, which could impact the spread of epidemics. W...
Purpose – In order to explore how gender and sexual politics are played out in everyday practice within both the extreme right and jihadi-Salafist movements online, this chapter analyses the content of two women’s only forums: The Women’s Forum on Stormfront.org and Women Dawah, a Turkish language pro-IS group chat on Telegram.
Methodology – The W...
This research argues that an imagined artifact, the IS coins, serves as a transhistorical artifact, condensing the larger ideology of the violent extremist organization of legitimacy and sovereignty. This paper conducts a qualitative content analysis on all references to IS Coin within Dabiq, al-Naba, Rumiyah and all the official videos publicized...
As terrorist groups became more technologically advanced with their media campaigns, the global audience began to see pictures of women in black burkas pledging allegiance to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and posing with guns. Although there is a backlash against such change that we see reflected in the ideologies of violent...
Definitional assumptions within and across terrorism databases cause variations in terrorist incidents that can have impactful implications for time-series analyses. This study compares 2002–2016 Western Europe attacks recorded by the open source media Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and US governmental reports, Country Reports on Terrorism (former...
This essay reviews previous strategic communication research related to online messaging of terrorist groups and rhetorical responses of U.S. presidents to terrorism. It identifies future areas of needed communication research related to both terrorism and counterterrorism efforts. To illustrate terrorism-related communication studies, it concludes...
Projects
Projects (3)
While women are increasingly targeted by the misogyny of the extreme right, they are also engaged in the movement. This project delves deeply into the contours of the contemporary rhetoric of anti-woman/anti-feminist ideologies of the extreme right in Canada, and shed light on the impetus for women’s increasing presence in the movement. In a nutshell, the project explores how gender and sexual politics are played out in everyday practice within the extreme right movement, both in terms of the framing of women by the movement, and women’s actions within the movement.
The key research questions are:
- What are the key spaces in which gender is framed?
- How are women framed discursively? What are variations and parallels in discourses across venues?
- What have been/are women’s motivations for engaging with the movement?
- What have been/are the roles of women in the movement?
- Are women’s apparent “leadership” roles in the current era authentic or instrumental?
- How do women negotiate the apparent contradiction between their engagement with the movement and the misogyny within the movement?
- Might this contradiction provide an entrée for extracting women from the movement, and men with them?
