Flexible” capital accumulation in Islamic State social media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Richards (0000-0001-6317-5631, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-225 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2015.1125642 |
| OpenAlex | W2295543302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article explores online social media produced by the neo-jihadist group “Islamic State” (IS) from a political-economic perspective. Using a framework developed by anthropologist David Harvey, it examines how IS social media operates within depoliticised neoliberal environments characterised by “flexible” regimes of capital accumulation. It explicates how IS acquires political-economic capital by evoking “spectacle”, “fashion” and a “commodification of cultural forms”. Drawing from Christian Fuchs’ informational theory, the article also considers the roles of agency and competition in accumulation processes where “knowledge and technology reinforce each other”. By revealing how IS both constitutes and is constituted by its flexible approach to social media, the article seeks to illuminate avenues for better understanding neo-jihadist ideations
Agency (philosophy · Commodification · Competition (biology · Economics · Economy · Islam · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Spectacle · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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The language of terror
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Al Qaeda and the Internet
Disciplining Terror
Routledge Handbook of Political Islam
Understanding Terror Networks
The Terror of Neoliberalism
What is Islamism? History and Definition of a Concept
Jihad Cool/Jihad Chic”
Drones, witches and other flying objects
Class war-on-terror
The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism
The Universal Adversary will attack
Terror of the talk
The like economy
Virtual Disputes
Tweeting the Jihad
Australian Neo- Jihadist Terrorism
The Janus Face of New Media Propaganda
Disturbing Pleasures
A Contribution to the Critique of the Political Economy of Transnational Informational Capitalism
From the Icon to Aniconism
Al-Qaeda and the Rise of Isis
Al Qaeda
War, Aggression and State Crime
The Crimes of Neo-Liberal Rule in Occupied Iraq
The condition of postmodernity
Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism
Conjuring up the next attack
Disposable Futures
The Internet
The Changing Nature of Suicide Attacks
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |