What We're Reading

June 2019 | Dr. Alastair Reed

Dr. Alastair Reed, Director of the RESOLVE Research Advisory Council, shares his reading list this month.

“Everything I have been reading lately centers around terrorism and communication and reflects my upcoming research projects. Over the last few years I have focused on understanding extremist propaganda and how to respond to it, examining the role of communications in the prevention space, countering radicalization and recruitment. More recently, I have taken a broader prospective on communications and counterterrorism, exploring the role of strategic communications across the four pillars of the EU counterterrorism strategy—Prevent, Respond, Protect, and Pursue—and in the aftermath of terrorist incidents. How can we design post-incident communications to lessen the immediate, secondary, and tertiary effects of a terrorist attacks apart from the intended goals? In the wake of the Christchurch Mosque attack, I re-examined both traditional media and social media reporting on terrorism. Keep an eye out for new research in these areas that I have been working on with Research Advisory Council members Dr. Haroro Ingram and Dr. Andrew Glazzard coming out early fall.”

 

Anderson, David. “Reporting Terrorism” Essex University Annual Journalism Lecture, 2019 February 11. https://www.daqc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2019/03/This.pdf 

Conway, Maura, and Joseph Dillon. “Case Study: Future Trends: Live-Streaming Terrorist Attacks?” VOX Pol, (2016). https://www.voxpol.eu/download/vox-pol_publication/Live-streaming_FINAL.pdf 

Dwoskin, Elizabeth, and Craig Timberg. “Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems” Washington Post, 2019 March 18. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/18/inside-youtubes-struggles-shut-down-video-new-zealand-shooting-humans-who-outsmarted-its-systems/?utm_term=.4316532f1748 

Ingram, Haroro J. “‘This is what the terrorists want’: Media as amplifier or disrupter of violent extremist propaganda” ICCT, 2017. https://icct.nl/publication/that-is-what-the-terrorists-want-media-as-amplifier-or-disrupter-of-violent-extremist-propaganda/ 

Innes, Martin. “Russian Influence and Interference Measures Following the 2017 UK Terrorist Attacks” Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), 2017 December 18. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/russian-influence-uk-terrorist-attacks/ 

Innes, Martin et al. “From Minutes to Months: A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Impact of Media and Social Media During and After Terror Events” The Five Country Research and Development Network, July 2018. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57875c16197aea2902e3820e/t/5bc74f950d929708f7733b3c/1539788716177/M2M+Report+%5BFinal%5D.pdf 

Pearce, Julia M. et al. “Encouraging public reporting of suspicious behaviour on rail networks” Policing and Society, 2019 April 19. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1607340 

Sadique, Kim, James Tangen, and Anna Perowne. “The Importance of Narrative in Responding to Hate Incidents Following ‘Trigger’ Events” Research Report prepared for TellMAMA, (November 2018). https://tellmamauk.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/Tell%20MAMA%20-%20Report.pdf 

Williams, Matthew L., and Pete Burnap. “Cyberhate on Social Media in the aftermath of Woolwich: A Case Study in Computational Criminology and Big Data” The British Journal of Criminology, 2016. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/article/56/2/211/2462519