Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Ph.D. Student, Department of Communication Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of National Security, National Defense University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/rjnsq.2024.448787.1581
Abstract
After the military defeats and the loss of the occupied territories, ISIS suffered a fundamental disturbance in the center of gravity of its power, and in this situation, it considered the media as a suitable platform for advancing governance. Accordingly, while moving his rule from the real space to the virtual space, he made the media the center of gravity of his power. This shifting of the center of gravity of governance has led to the revival of ISIS by attracting new forces through the management of their exclusionary perception and identification with the power of the media and finally, turning the attracted audience into a lone wolf and terrorist acts in Shiraz, Kerman, Moscow and other areas. The world has become The following article, with a qualitative approach and the foundation's data strategy, has tried to calculate the components and indicators of the power of ISIS in the center of gravity of the media; For this purpose, from the statistical population, all ISIS media productions in the four formats of photos, text, video and audio from Dabiq and Rumiyah publications from 2011 to 2016. As well as the images, posters, epic hymns and texts that ISIS has published in cyberspace from 2016 to 2024, the data has been entered into the Maxqda 2020 software to the extent of theoretical saturation, and the perceptual-identity components of ISIS's power in the center of gravity have been determined. In the post-brokerage era, the media is included in 9 components and 44 indicators.
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