{"id":21835,"date":"2016-03-21T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=21835"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:48:29","slug":"stern-in-the-media-isis-boosts-reach-through-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/03\/21\/stern-in-the-media-isis-boosts-reach-through-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Stern in the Media: ISIS Boosts Reach Through Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/03\/Stern1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/03\/Stern1.jpg\" alt=\"Stern1\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21836\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jessica-stern\/\">Jessica Stern<\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><span>Research Professor at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a><span>\u00a0discussed in a recent interview how members of the Islamic State are able to expand their reach through social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stern was quoted in a\u00a0<span>widely-syndicated<\/span>\u00a0March 18, 2016 article by the\u00a0<em>Associated Press,\u00a0<\/em>entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whdh.com\/story\/31501020\/experts-is-expanding-its-global-reach-through-social-media\">IS is Expanding Its Global Reach Through Social Media.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the text of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>&#8220;The Internet enables people who aren&#8217;t necessarily able to function well in a group to claim at least that they&#8217;re inspired by an ideology,&#8221; said Jessica Stern, a research professor at the Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Jessica Stern\u2019s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror.\u00a0 She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists.\u00a0 She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists.\u00a0 She has been working with a team at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth.\u00a0 She is\u00a0currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jessica-stern\/\">Read more about her here<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Jessica Stern discussed how the Internet enables ISIS to boost their recruitment efforts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,8541,8859,8625,9059,8633,9331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21846,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions\/21846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}