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El uso de composiciones musicales como mecanismo de comunicación del discurso de odio en redes sociales: estudio de una nasheed yihadista

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: With the rise of social media during the period known as the Arab Spring, a type of sympathiser of the jihadist cause started to emerge, termed prosumer1, who consumes, but also produces extremist audio-visual content, thereby favouring the viralisation of hate speech on social media. A part of this propaganda is made up of jihadist musical compositions from the genre called nasheed, whose musical plasticity seeks to sugarcoat an ideology that defends and promotes violence, while at the same time trying to avoid the online content restrictions put in place by operators, by virtue of its symbolic dimension. The multimodal analysis performed on a piece circulated by the jihadist organisation Jabhat al-Nusrah shows that 65% of the verses are identified as violent and that 55% of them support martyrdom for the faith in the form of immolation, utilising symbolic elements that make it difficult for the algorithm to restrict content.

Source: Doxa Comunicación Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales

DOI: 10.31921/doxacom.n41a2250

Authors: Francisco Trujillo-Fernández, Jorge Gallardo-Camacho, Ana Jorge Alonso

Institutions: Universidad de Málaga, Camilo José Cela University

Language: English

Topic: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Universidad Camilo José Cela