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A Response to Spukhafte Fernwirkung | Truitt Dill

In Spukhafte Fernwirkung (2019), Kailum Graves compacts the endless, challenging landscape of Iceland into a 36-minute time lapse video comprised of images (640×480) taken over a three year period. Beginning the process in Skagaströnd, before moving to more remote locations, Graves compiles and arranges thousands of images in order to…

Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategy (An Excerpt) | Rebecca Earnhardt
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Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategy (An Excerpt) | Rebecca Earnhardt

Digital America is publishing an excerpt of Rebecca’s essay “Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategy.” The entire essay can be found as a .pdf link at the end of the excerpt. Abstract Al-Qaeda was initially formed not as a terrorist organization, but as an independent Islamist military faction (Bergen & Cruickshank, 2012). The…