Publications

Books:

Ali Fisher, Collaborative Public Diplomacy: How Transnational Networks Influenced A merican Studies in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN13: 978-0230338968

R.S. Zaharna, Amelia Arsenault,  Ali Fisher,  Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift, (Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society) 2013. ISBN-13: 978-0415636070

Ali Fisher & Scott Lucas, The Trials of Engagement: The Future of US Public Diplomacy, Brill 2010. ISBN13: 978-9004179400

Terrorism and the Salafi-Jihadi movement

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, “The Taliban-al-Qaeda Nexus: Brothers in Arms”, Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism (1st Edition) 2023 

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, “Online Territories of Terror: The Multi-Platform Communication Paradigm and the Information Ecology of the Web3 Era” Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism (1st Edition) 2023

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, Salafi-Jihadi Online Ecosystem in 2022, Swarmcast2.0, EICTP Expert paper, June 2022

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, Pavel Tupek, “The Salafi-Jihadi Nexus: An Evidence Based Approach of the Caliphate Library”, EICTP Expert Paper, February 2022

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, “Understanding the Global Jihadist Movement 20 years after 9/11”, EICTP Expert paper, October 2021

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha “Working and Waiting”: The Salafi-Jihadi movement on Telegram in 2021“,
Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società 15 (1), 141-170

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, Follow the White Rabbit – Tracking IS Online and Insights into What Jihadists Share, in Marone, Francesco (ed.) Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism. Ledizioni, (2019).

Ali Fisher, “Interrogating the electronic ribat: Data Science in the study of the Jihadist movement“, in Lohlker, R. (ed.) World wide warriors: How Jihadis operate online. (2019).

Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, “A Milestone for “Islamic State” Propaganda: “The Clanging of the Swords, part 4“, in Lohlker, R. (ed.) World wide warriors: How Jihadis operate online. (2019).

Fisher, A., et al. “Mapping the jihadist information ecosystem: Towards the 3rd generation of disruption capability.” Policy Brief, Royal United Services Institute, London (2019).

Ali Fisher, Netwar in Cyberia: decoding the media mujahidin, paper 5, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, 2018,

Frampton, Martyn, Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha, and David H. Petraeus. The New Netwar: Countering extremism online. Policy Exchange, 2017.

Ali Fisher, “Swarmcast: How Jihadist Networks Maintain a Persistent Online Presence“, Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol 9, No 3 (2015)

Ashcroft, Michael, et al. “Detecting jihadist messages on twitter.” 2015 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. IEEE, 2015.

Jamie Bartlett and Ali Fisher, “How to beat the media mujahideen“, DEMOS Quarterly, Issue #5, Winter 2014/15

Fisher, Ali; Prucha, Nico (2014, August): “The Call-up: The Roots of a Resilient and Persistent Jihadist Presence on Twitter“. CTX, 4(3), 73-88.

Ali Fisher and Nico Prucha, “ISIS Is Winning the Online Jihad Against the West,” The Daily Beast (Oct. 1, 2014)

Prucha, Nico, and Ali Fisher. “Tweeting for the caliphate: Twitter as the new frontier for jihadist propaganda.” CTC Sentinel 6.6 (2013): 19-23.

Strategic Communication & Public Diplomacy

Unmasking the Arzeshi, “Iran’s Conservative Cyber-Activists and the 2013 Presidential Election“, Small Media (2014)

Marie Gillespie et al., “Understanding the Changing Cultural Value of the BBC World Service and the British Council“, Open University Cultural Value Project, July 2014.

Ali Fisher, “A Network Perspective on Public Diplomacy in Europe: EUNIC“, in Mai’a K. Davis Cross and Jan Melissen (eds), European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Ali Fisher, “Everybody’s getting hooked up; Building innovative strategies in the era of big data“, Public Diplomacy Magazine, Summer 2012, pp. 43-54

Ali Fisher, “Evaluating Online Public Diplomacy using Digital Media Research Methods: A Case Study of #ObamainBrazil“, InterMedia White Paper, July 2011.

Ali Fisher, “Mapping the Great Beyond; Identifying Meaningful Networks in Public Diplomacy” CPD Perspectives in Public Diplomacy, Paper 2, 2010

Ali Fisher, “Bullets with Butterfly Wings; Tweets, Protest Networks, and the Iranian Election.” in Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age, (ed. Y Kamalipour)   (2010)

Ali Fisher, “Monitoring social media and networks; identifying keys to unlock collaboration and innovation“, Cornerstone Global Blue Paper, July 2010

Ali Fisher, Music For The Jilted Generation: Open-Source Public Diplomacy, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Volume 3, Number 2, September 2008 , pp. 129-152(24)

Ali Fisher: Four seasons in one day: the crowded house of public diplomacy in the UK, in: Routledge handbook of public diplomacy / ed. N. Snow; Ph.M. Taylor. – New York: Routledge: (2009) pp. 251-261

Ali Fisher: Looking at the Man in the Mirror; Understanding of Power and Influence in Public Diplomacy, in Trials of Engagement; the future of US Public Diplomacy (Brill 2010).

Ali Fisher, Public Diplomacy in the UK, in Javier Noya ed. The Present and Future of Public Diplomacy: A European Perspective, (The 2006 Madrid Conference on Public Diplomacy, Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies).

Ali Fisher and Aurélie Bröckerhoff,Options for Influence; global campaigns of persuasion in the new worlds of public diplomacy (Counterpoint) 2008

Are Governments losing their grip? For the British Council’s TN2020 project

Gramsci and the New Intellectuals, 49th Parallel, Issue 12, Winter 2003

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