Stern in the Media: ISIS Boosts Reach Through Social Media
Jessica Stern, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, discussed in a recent interview how members of the Islamic State are able to expand their reach through social media.
Stern was quoted in a widely-syndicated March 18, 2016 article by the Associated Press, entitled “IS is Expanding Its Global Reach Through Social Media.”
From the text of the article:
“The Internet enables people who aren’t necessarily able to function well in a group to claim at least that they’re inspired by an ideology,” said Jessica Stern, a research professor at the Pardee School for Global Studies at Boston University.
Jessica Stern’s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror. She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists. She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists. She has been working with a team at Boston Children’s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth. She is currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia. Read more about her here.