Publications

Journal Articles (peer reviewed) (N=9)
  1. "Weaponizing Reproductive Rights: A Mixed-Method Analysis of White Nationalists' Discussion of Abortions Online." Information, Communication & Society (2022). (with Yotam Ophir, Meredith Pruden, Dror Walter, Catherine Tebaldi & Rui Wang)
  2. "Vaccine discourse in white nationalist online communication: A mixed-methods computational approach." Social Science and Medicine (2022). (with Dror Walter, Yotam Ophir and Meredith Pruden)
  3. "Vaccine Hesitancy Under the Magnifying Glass: A Systematic Review of the Uses and Misuses of an Increasingly Popular Construct." Health Communication (2022). (with Yotam Ophir, Nathan Walter, Dror Walter, Raphaela Velho, Meredith Prudent and Emily Andrews)
  4. "Troop Withdrawal Announcements & ISIS Media Campaigns: Community and Power." International Journal of Communication (2022) (with Kayla McMinimy, Carol Winkler and Monerah Almahmoud)
  5. "Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS." Terrorism and Political Violence (2021) (with Kayla McMinimy, Carol Winkler and Monerah Almahmoud)
  6. “The Framing of COVID-19 in Italian Media and its Effects on Community Mobility: A Mixed Method Approach.” Journal of Health Communication (2021) (with Yotam Ophir, Dror Walter, Daniel Arnon, Michele Tizzoni, Joëlle Carota, Lorenzo D’Antiga and Emanuele Nicastro)
  7. "Coin as Imagined Sovereignty: A Rhetorical Analysis of Coins as a Transhistorical Artifact and an Ideograph in Islamic State’s Communication" Studies of Conflict and Terrorism (2020)
  8. "From Pawn to Knights: The Changing Role of Women’s Agency in Terrorism?" Studies of Conflict and Terrorism Special Issue: Gender and Terrorism (2020). (with Mia Bloom)
  9. "Definitions Matter: A Comparison of Government and Media Databases on Terrorism" Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2019), 1–18. (with Wojciech Kaczkowski and Carol Winkler)​
Book Chapters (N=5)
  1. “Monetary economics, illicit economies and legitimation: the case of ISIS.” In The Rule is for None but Allah: Islamist Approaches to Governance, edited by Shiraz Maher and Joanna Cook. United Kingdom: Hurst Publishing. (2022) (with Alexandra Phelan)
  2. ​"Birds of a feather: A comparative analysis of white supremacist and violent male supremacist discourses." In Far-right Extremism in North America, edited by Barbara Perry, Jeff Gruenwald, & Ryan Scrivens. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave (2022).  (with Meredith Pruden, Anne Peterscheck, & Yannick Veilleux-Lepage)​
  3. "Hatred, She Wrote: An Analysis of the Extreme Right and Islamic State Women’s Only Forum". In D. Silva & M. Deflem (Eds.), Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing (2020). (with Yannick Veilleux-Lepage) 
  4. "Conducting Field Work in a Virtual Space, Exploring ISIS’ Encrypted Messaging on Telegram". In P. Krause & O. Szekely (Eds.), Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (2020). New York, NY: Columbia University Press (with Mia Bloom)
  5. "Communicating Terrorism and Counterterrorism". In H. Bean & B. Taylor (Eds.), Handbook of Communication and Security (2019). New York, NY: Routledge (with Carol Winkler)
Book Reviews and Compiled Bibliographies
  1. "Bibliography: Rebel Governance". Perspectives on Terrorism, 15(5), 145–165 (with David Teiner, Marta Furlan and Brody McDonald)
  2. "Targeting top terrorists: Understanding leadership removal in counterterrorism strategy" South African Journal of International Affairs (2021)
Opinion and Commentary (selected)

 Conference Presentations 

  1. Lokmanoglu, A. (2022, May 15). Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm” Symposium and Special Issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.      
  2. Lokmanoglu, A. (2022, March 27). Constituting the Imagined Caliphate: Rhetorical and Computational Approaches to Explicating Non-State Actor Economic Messaging. Broadening Our Approach: A Workshop on Comparative Political Communication, Duke University, Durham, NC.
  3. Lokmanoglu, A. (2022) Two and a Half Years Into the Pandemic: Extremist Decision-making and Communication During COVID-19 [Roundtable Participant]. International Studies Association, Nashville, TN.
  4. Lokmanoglu, A., Winkler, C., Almahmoud, M. (2022). Merging Rhetorical Studies and Big Data to Better Understand Rhetorical Acts of Violence in ISIS Publications. International Studies Association, Nashville, TN.
  5. McMinimy, K., Lokmanoglu, A. (2022). Censoring Extremism: Influence of Online Restriction on Official Media Products of ISIS. International Studies Association, Nashville, TN.
  6. Lokmanoglu, A. (2021). Performative Statehood in the Virtual World: The Family. Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), online.
  7. Veilleux-Lepage, Y., Lokmanoglu, A., Phelan, A. (2021). Analysis of the Extreme Right and Islamic State Women’s Only Forum. Counterterrorism in a Global Perspective Virtual Workshop funded by Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS).
  8. Pruden, M., Lokmanoglu, A., Petershcek, A., Veilleux-LePage, Y. (2021) Birds of a Feather: A Comparative Analysis of White Supremacist and Violent Male Supremacist Discourses. Top Papers in Peace and Conflict Communication in National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.
  9. Lokmanoglu, A., Walter, D., Pruden, M., Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Goodwin, C. (2021). Ideologize Globally, Mobilize Locally: The Internationalization of Far-Right Online Discourse. International Communications Associations (ICA), online.
  10. Lokmanoglu, A. (2021). Monetary Economics as State Building – Non-State Actors Challenging International Financial Systems. International Studies Association, online.
  11. Lokmanoglu, A. (2021). Performative Governance in the Digital World – ISIS and Monetary Economics. Technology and Governance: Exploring Law and Innovation in the Absence of State Governance, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Law Faculty at the University of Oxford.
  12. Lokmanoglu, A. (2021). Monetary Economics as State-Building—ISIS and Performative Governance. The State in Flux Graduate Winter School Program, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Doha Institute.
  13. Lokmanoglu, A. (2020). Monetary Economics as State Building – ISIS Challenging Traditional Norms of Statehood. Islamist Rebel Governance Workshop, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland.
  14. Lokmanoglu, A., Walter, D., Veilleux-Lepage, Y., & Pruden, M. (2020, September). Exploring the Internationalization of Far-Right Movements. American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA.
  15. Lokmanoglu, A., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2020). Hatred, She Wrote: An Analysis of the Extreme Right and Islamic State Women’s Only Forum. International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
  16. Lokmanoglu, A. (2020). Statehood through social media? ISIS Videos on Legitimizing Statehood to the International World. International Studies Association (ISA), Honolulu, Hawaii (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic).
  17. Lokmanoglu, A., Kaczkowski, W., & Winkler, C. (2019). Definitions Matter: A Comparison of Government and Media Databases on Terrorism. Society of Terrorism Research, Oslo, Norway.
  18. Lokmanoglu, A., & Veilleux-Lepage, Y. (2019). Hatred, She Wrote: An Analysis of the Extreme Right and Islamic State Women’s Only Forum. Society of Terrorism Research, Oslo, Norway.
  19. Lokmanoglu, A. (2018). Fatal Attraction: ISIS’s Media Strategy for Appealing and Recruiting Women. VOX-Pol Violent Extremism, Terrorism, and the Internet: Present and Future Trends Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  20. Lokmanoglu, A. (2018). A textual and visual analysis of ISIS Media Channels for Women. Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) 2018 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Invited Talks

  • Righteous Currencies in Extreme Ideologies: IS Coins, TrumpCoins and FREEdom Coins [Panel] in Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm Symposium and Special Issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, Stanford Internet Observatory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
  • Responsible Data Science Community of Practice [Panel Participant]. Fall Forum of Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI), The Ohio State University (virtual)​
  • Women’s Changing Roles in Terrorism. Guest Lecture for ATS1701 Terrorism and Political Violence (Undergraduate), Dr. Alexandra Phelan, School of Social Sciences, Monash University