DNL #12: TERROR FEEDS. Keynote with Sue Turton, Charlie Winter and Mauro Mondello
Channel: Disruption Network Lab
Date: 2017-12-14

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/
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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
17.00-18.30  ·  KEYNOTE
RISE OF THE CALIPHATE: How ISIS Became a Global Threat

Sue Turton (Reporter and Journalist, Former Al Jazeera Correspondent, UK), Charlie Winter (Senior Research Fellow ICSR Centre, Associate Fellow ICCT The Hague, PhD Fellow King’s College London, UK). Moderated by Mauro Mondello (Investigative Journalist, IT/DE).

Why did the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria come to exist? What are its aims and its reasons for committing terrible violence? To comprehend this phenomenon, it is first of all necessary to understand the tangled story of how it came to be. The group started in 1999 in a very different configuration. In the last eighteen years the disorders in the Middle East and the rise of the Islamic State/ISIS became a pressing security and humanitarian concern not only for the region, but also for the international community as a whole. To appraise the effectiveness of strategies to counter ISIS's activities, it is crucial to understand the place ISIS occupies within a broader context. In her keynote presentation, reporter and journalist Sue Turton will focus on the origin, the evolution and the groups current status "in the field", presenting an overview of the Islamic State’s development from the beginning up to now, highlighting different steps followed by the group during the years, as well as its changes in perspective, and how it adapted its strategy to the different countries where it operates. Researcher Charlie Winter will focus on how the ISIS propaganda has been working and the way it changed and developed through the years, especially through the strategic usage of contents, media, and social platforms, which have been crucial for the Islamic State rise since the very beginning. What is the current status of ISIS? How does their official propaganda work and how might it operate in the future?