Michael Stohl
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View article: Do You Know Your Enemy: The Role of Known Actors as Framing Devices in News Media
Do You Know Your Enemy: The Role of Known Actors as Framing Devices in News Media Open
We examine how and why al-Qa’ida and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have come to dominate discourse of the international terrorist threat in the post-9/11 era, through their emergence as the primary referents for understanding terrori…
View article: Assessing Organizational Information Visibility: Development and Validation of the Information Visibility Scale
Assessing Organizational Information Visibility: Development and Validation of the Information Visibility Scale Open
A common observation in the digital age is that new technologies are making people’s behaviors, decisions, and preferences more visible. For scholars who study organizations and their effects upon society, increased information visibility …
View article: Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe Open
This article explores the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad force…
View article: States and Peoples in Conflict
States and Peoples in Conflict Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book surveys theoretical and empirical research on the origins, processes, patterns, and consequences of most forms and context…
View article: Violent political movements: comparing the Shining Path to the Islamic State
Violent political movements: comparing the Shining Path to the Islamic State Open
The threat posed by the Islamic State[1] is frequently described as unprecedented and unique. Measured by the size of territory it once controlled, its wealth in terms of cash on hand and access to modern military material, and in its shoc…
View article: Framing Daesh: Failures and Consequences
Framing Daesh: Failures and Consequences Open
The actual structures and motivations of terrorist organizations like Daesh (aka. IS, ISIS, ISIL) are often invisible to the general public, and given their clandestine nature, often opaque to all external actors (including governments, mi…
View article: Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe
Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe Open
This article explores the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad force…
View article: Clandestine/Hidden Organizations
Clandestine/Hidden Organizations Open
Clandestine/hidden organizations are composed of groups of people who keep their affiliations secret and conceal internal and external organizational activities. Since the early 2000s, the prominence and notoriety of clandestine organizati…
View article: Digital Age | Managing Opacity: Information Visibility and the Paradox of Transparency in the Digital Age
Digital Age | Managing Opacity: Information Visibility and the Paradox of Transparency in the Digital Age Open
Organizational transparency is in vogue. When technologies make it possible for information about actors’ behaviors, communications, decisions, and opinions to be visible to interested parties, those actors and the organizations in which t…
View article: Digital Age| The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age — Introduction
Digital Age| The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age — Introduction Open
What we see, what we show and how we look are fundamental organizational concerns made ever more salient by the affordances, dynamics, and discourses of the digital age. Contemporary organizing practices are awash with material, mediated a…
View article: The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction
The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction Open
What we see, what we show and how we look are fundamental organizational concerns made ever more salient by the affordances, dynamics, and discourses of the digital age. Contemporary organizing practices are awash with material, mediated a…