Respawning Jihadist: ISIS Recruiting Through Online Gaming Communities

Author

Alexander J. Ham-Kucharski, Portland State UniversityFollow

First Advisor

Shawn Smallman

Date of Award

Fall 2022

Document Type

Presentation

Language

English

Subjects

Terrorists -- Recruiting, Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam, Jihad

Abstract

The purpose of my research is to educate and bring awareness of ISIS’s (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) recruiting programs through social media and video games. As stated by Lakomy (2019): “Cyber jihadis nowadays rightly perceived as a rising threat to international security” (2019, p. 383). ISIS targets individuals as young as teenagers through games such as Call of Duty, Far Cry, Halo, ARMA3, and Grand Theft Auto as to recruit those from the Western world for their Jihad. ISIS Recruiters use these platforms to attract initiates via the gaming world through imagery that is already imprinted in the mind of avid first person shooter gamers.

Rights

© 2022 by Alexander J. Ham-Kucharski

Comments

Created for INTL 366

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39185

Recommended Citation

Ham-Kucharski, Alexander J., "Respawning Jihadist: ISIS Recruiting Through Online Gaming Communities" (2022). Student Work. 2.
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39185