Dr Nico Prucha - The Use of the Internet by Islamic State in Syria




War Studies show

Summary: Dr Nico Prucha is the new VOX-Pol Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) in the Department of War Studies at King’s. His work focuses on analysing and deciphering primary Arabic-language jihadist propaganda content on- and offline. Prior to this, Nico worked as a doctoral candidate for the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna. He is the author of ‘The Voice of Jihad: "Sawt al- Jihad": al- Qaeda's first online magazine’ (in German) and the forthcoming ‘Online Territories of Terror - How Jihadist Movements Project Influence and Conduct Warfare on the Internet and Why it Matters Offline’. On 17 March 2015, Dr Prucha delivered a talk entitled ‘The Use of the Internet by Islamic State in Syria’. The event was chaired by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Head of Research and Information at ICSR. DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this recording are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.