DNL #12: TERROR FEEDS. Panel with Dlshad Othman, Aymenn Al-Tamimi and Frederike Kaltheuner
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2017-12-18

Disruption Network Lab 
An ongoing platform of events and research on art, hacktivism and disruption in Berlin. 

Berlin, November 24 - 25, 2017
TERROR FEEDS: Inside the Fear Machine
12th Event of the Disruption Network Lab, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Studio 1.

Web: http://www.disruptionlab.org/terror-feeds/
Twitter: @disruptberlin 
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Artistic Director and Curator: Tatiana Bazzichelli
Guest Curator: Mauro Mondello
Programme Managers: Nada Bakr, Claudia Dorfmüller, Kim Voss

Credits: 
Disruption Network Lab Berlin - www.disruptionlab.org
Video by Rofsofilms - www.rofsofilms.com 
Graphic: Jonas Frankki 
CC Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
Photo thumbnail: Maria Silvano

November 24, 2017
19.00-21.00  ·  PANEL
CYBER JIHAD: ISIS MEDIA STRATEGIES AND COUNTERMEASURES

Dlshad Othman (Activist and IT Security Engineer, SY/US), Aymenn Al-Tamimi (Jihad-Intel Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, SY/UK). Moderated by Frederike Kaltheuner (Programme Lead and Policy Officer, Privacy International, DE/UK).

This panel analyses both ISIS’s sophisticated and rigorous media strategy and its countermeasures. ISIS adopts online media tools to propagate its multidimensional indoctrination, strategically recruiting young men and women worldwide, using websites and online magazines but above all social media platforms. This panel aims at providing an understanding of ISIS’s cyber jihad via practical examples and documents, analysing the role of (social) media usage in building the ISIS image, and identifying ways of confronting this challenge. ISIS makes a profound use of cyber jihad as an instrument for recruitment, radicalisation, and dissemination of propaganda, and has captivated a global network of supporters that articulate, intensify and disseminate its violent extremist messages worldwide. This panel will analyse the results of ISIS’s media and social media propaganda and its technological capability in building up a global network of supporters; from the other side, it will present countermeasures to defeat extremism, discussing to which level we are dealing with real advanced threats, and what are the consequences of more ISIS fighters currently going back to EU.