Publications

Journal Article Book Chapter Edited Journal Preprint Report Book Review Policy Article

2024

Heaven Holds a Place for Those Who Pray: Instrumentalizing Religion and Disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish Presidential Campaigns

James Fitzgerald, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Deborah Salles, Marie Santini (All authors are first authors)

The International Journal of Press/Politics

2024
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Performative State Building in the Digital World

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

In N. Stremlau & C. V. Casabó, Technology and Governance Beyond the State. Taylor & Francis.

2024

Networks Approach: Trolls and Bots in Malaysia

Munira Mustaffa, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

In S. L. Connaughton & S. Pukallus (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of conflict and peace communication. Routledge.

2024
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The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations

Fumeng Yang, Mandi Cai, Chloe Mortenson, Hoda Fakhari, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Erik C. Nisbet, & Matthew Kay

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

2024
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Mediated Public Diplomacy and RT on Instagram: Role of International Institutions, Audience Engagement, and Online Account Bans

Carol Kay Winkler, Virginia Massignan, Kareem El Damanhoury, Mor Yachin, Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu, and Kayla Denise McMinimy

Journalism Studies

2024
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Signalling media professionalism: comparative social constructions of RT and CGTN

Kareem El Damanhoury, Carol Kay Winkler, Virginia Massignan, Keyu Alexander Chen, Katerina Papatheodorou, & Ayse Lokmanoglu

The Journal of International Communication

2024

The Economy and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of RT’s Economic Content and Context on Facebook

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Carol K. Winkler, Kareem El Damanhoury, Virginia Massignan, Esteban Villa-Turek, and Keyu Alexander Chen

arXiv

2024

Transnational Network Dynamics of Problematic Information Diffusion

Esteban Villa-Turek, Rod Abhari, Erik C. Nisbet, Yu Xu, and Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu

arXiv

2023
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The (International) Politics of Content Takedowns: Theory, Practice, Ethics

James Fitzgerald & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

Policy & Internet, Special Issue

2023
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Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms

Fumeng Yang, Mandi Cai, Chloe Mortenson, Hoda Fakhari, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Erik C. Nisbet, & Matthew Kay

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)

2023
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Montevideo Convention and CGTN: Defining Statehood for Global Outreach

Keyu Alexander Chen, Virginia Massignan, Mor Yachin, Carol Winkler, & Ayse Deniz Lokmanoglu

International Journal of Communication

2023
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Social Media Sentiment about COVID-19 Vaccination Predicts Vaccine Acceptance Among Peruvian Social Media Users the Next Day

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Erik C. Nisbet, Matthew T. Osborne, Joseph Tien, Sam Malloy, Lourdes Cueva Chacón, Esteban Villa Turek, & Rod Abhari

Vaccines

2023
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Monetary Economics, Illicit Economies, and Legitimation: The Case of Islamic State

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Alexandra Phelan

In The Rule Is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance, edited by Joana Cook and Shiraz Maher, Oxford University Press.

2022
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Gendered Radicalisation and “Everyday Practices”: An Analysis of Extreme Right and Islamic State Women-Only Forums

Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Alexandra Phelan, & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

European Journal of International Security

2022
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Textual Messaging of ISIS’s al-Naba and the Context Drivers that Correspond to Strategic Changes

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Carol K. Winkler, Monerah Al Mahmoud, Kayla McMinimy, & Katherine Kountz

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

2022
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Weaponizing Reproduction Rights: A Mixed-Method Analysis of White Nationalists' Discussion of Abortions Online

Yotam Ophir, Meredith L. Pruden, Dror Walter, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Catherine Tebaldi, & Rui Wang

Information, Communication & Society

2022
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Vaccine discourse in white nationalist online communication: A mixed-methods computational approach

Dror Walter, Yotam Ophir, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Meredith L. Pruden

Social Science & Medicine

2022
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ISIS Media and Troop Withdrawal Announcements: Visualizing Community and Resilience

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Carol K. Winkler, Kayla McMinimy, & Monerah Almahmoud

International Journal of Communication

2022

Birds of a Feather: A Comparative Analysis of White Supremacist and Violent Male Supremacist Discourses

Meredith L. Pruden, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Anne Peterscheck, & Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

In Far-Right Extremism in North America, edited by Barbara Perry, Jeff Gruenwald, and Ryan Scrivens, Palgrave.

2022
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Vaccine Hesitancy Under the Magnifying Glass: A Systematic Review of the Uses and Misuses of an Increasingly Popular Construct

Yotam Ophir, Nathan Walter, Dror Walter, Raphaela M. Velho, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Meredith L. Pruden, & Emily A. Andrews

Health Communication

2022

White Nationalism, Stormfront, and the Extremist Politicisation of Science

Yotam Ophir, Meredith L. Pruden, Dror Walter, & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

Global Network on Extremism & Terrorism (GNET) (blog)

2022

Online Platforms as Gendered Sites: Why We Should Pay Attention to Women-Only Forums

Alexandra Phelan, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu & Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

Global Network on Extremism & Terrorism (GNET) (blog)

2021
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The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and Its Relationship with Community Mobility: A Mixed-Method Approach

Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Daniel Arnon, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Michele Tizzoni, Joëlle Carota, Lorenzo D’Antiga, & Emanuele Nicastro

Journal of Health Communication

2021
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Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS

Kayla McMinimy, Carol K. Winkler, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Monerah Almahmoud

Terrorism and Political Violence

2021
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Targeting Top Terrorists: Understanding Leadership Removal in Counterterrorism Strategy: By Bryan C Price, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, 288 Pp., $32 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-231-18823-4

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

South African Journal of International Affairs

2021
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Bibliography: Rebel Governance

David Teiner, Marta Furlan, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Brody McDonald

Perspectives on Terrorism

2020
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From Pawn to Knights: The Changing Role of Women’s Agency in Terrorism?

Mia Bloom, & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

2020
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Coin as Imagined Sovereignty: A Rhetorical Analysis of Coins as a Transhistorical Artifact and an Ideograph in Islamic State’s Communication

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

2020

Conducting Field Work in a Virtual Space, Exploring ISIS’ Encrypted Messaging on Telegram

Mia Bloom, & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

In Stories from the Field A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, edited by Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, Columbia University Press

2020
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Hatred She Wrote: A Comparative Topic Analysis of Extreme Right and Islamic State Women-Only Forums

Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Yannick Veilleux-Lepage

In Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, edited by Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem, Emerald Publishing Limited

2019
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Definitions Matter: A Comparison of the Global Terrorism Database and the U.S. Governmental Reports of Terrorist Incidents in Western Europe, 2002-2016

Wojciech Kaczkowski, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, & Carol K. Winkler

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

2019

Communicating Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Carol K. Winkler, & Ayse D. Lokmanoglu

In The Handbook of Communication and Security, Routledge