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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Developing Impact and Effectiveness Assessment Tool for Influence Operations	Steve Sin	January, 2021 to May, 2022
Social Media Influencers: Re-domaining Fashion Industry Forecasting to Anticipate Online Extremist Radicalization	Barnett S. Koven, Ramon F. Brena	March, 2018 to September, 2019
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media	Gary LaFree	September, 2014 to September, 2019
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence		January, 2018 to June, 2018
Comprehensive Testing of Imminent Threat Public Messages for Mobile Devices (MDP)	Brooke Liu, Hamilton Bean, Marcus A. Boyd, Michele Wood	June, 2012 to June, 2015
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism	Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand	July, 2012 to December, 2014
Social Media Use during Disasters	Brooke Liu	July, 2012 to October, 2013
The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia	Douglas M. McLeod	June, 2007 to May, 2009
Textual Analysis of Electronic Media Coverage of Homeland Security-Related Risks	Lisa Keranen	September, 2006 to May, 2009

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
#JESUISPARIS?: An Appeal to Hypocrisy and Justifications for Mass Casualty Violence	October 2019	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
A Comparison of ISIS Foreign Fighters and Supporters Social Media Posts: An Exploratory Mixed-method Content Analysis	November 2019	Freilich, Joshua	Journal Article
A Practical Taxonomy for Online Terrorist Content	July 2021	Braniff, William	Report
An Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills Perspective on Terrorist Propaganda	August 2019	Lemieux, Anthony	Book Chapter
Beyond Image Repair: Suggestions for Crisis Communication Theory Development	September 2014	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia	Journal Article
Can taking down websites really stop terrorists and hate groups?	September 2017	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Discussion Point
Clearing the Smoke and Breaking the Mirrors: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Challenge Online Disinformation by Extremists	September 2020	Braddock, Kurt	Book Chapter
Comparing Social Media and Traditional Surveys Around the Boston Marathon Bombing	April 2016	LaFree, Gary	Conference Paper
Crisis Information Seeking and Sharing (CISS): Scale Development for Measuring Publics’ Communicative Behavior in Social-Mediated Public Health Crises	April 2019	Jin, Yan	Journal Article
Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism	April 2018	Braddock, Kurt	Journal Article
Data-Driven System Identification of the Social Network Dynamics in Online Postings of an Extremist Group	June 2016	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Conference Paper
Digital Participation Roles of the Global Jihad: Social Media’s Role in Bringing Together Vulnerable Individuals and VEO Content	March 2018	Ligon, Gina Scott	White Paper
Disaster Warnings in Your Pocket: How Audiences Interpret Mobile Alerts for an Unfamiliar Hazard	March 2016	Liu, Brooke; Mileti, Dennis; Bean, Hamilton; Sutton, Jeannette; Wood, Michele; Madden, Stephanie	Journal Article
Disentangling Social Media Influence in Crises: Testing a Four-factor Model of Social Media Influence with Large Data	November 2018	Liu, Brooke	Journal Article
Domestic Terrorism and Digital Media: Planning in Cyberspace	August 2019	Smith, Brent; Gruenewald, Jeff; Fitzpatrick, Kevin	Book Chapter
Encouraging and Assessing the Validity of Answers to Questions about Radicalization: The Use of Meta-opinions	March 2018	McCauley, Clark; Moskalenko, Sophia	White Paper
Examining the Online Expression of Ideology among Far-Right Extremist Forum Users	January 2020	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Examining the Role of Social Media in Effective Crisis Management: The Effects of Crisis Origin, Information Form, and Source on Publics' Crisis Responses	August 2017	Liu, Brooke; Jin, Yan	Journal Article
How Disaster Information Form, Source, Type, and Prior Disaster Exposure Affect Public Outcomes: Jumping on the Social Media Bandwagon?	January 2015	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	Journal Article
Instruments and Arrangements against Online Terrorism Relating to International Cooperation	August 2019	Leuprecht, Christian	Book Chapter
Legal Restrictions and Challenges for Police and Law Enforcement Authorities	August 2019	Hodwitz, Omi	Book Chapter
Legislation Specifically Targeting the Use of the Internet to Recruit Terrorists	August 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Lethal Brands: How VEOs Build Reputations	May 2015	Ligon, Gina Scott	Journal Article
Loners, Colleagues, or Peers? Assessing the Social Organization of Radicalization	April 2018	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Miscommunication during the Anthrax Attacks: How Events Reveal Organizational Failures	January 2007	Chess, Caron	Journal Article
Narrative Persuasion and Violent Extremism: Foundations and Implications	February 2020	Braddock, Kurt	Book Chapter
Online Networks of the Italian and German Extreme Right: An Explorative Study with Social Network Analysis	February 2009	Caiani, Manuela	Journal Article
Powers and Problems of Integrating Social Media Data with Public Health and Safety	September 2015	LaFree, Gary	Conference Paper
Psychology and Morality of Political Extremists: Evidence from Twitter Language Analysis of Alt-right and Antifa	May 2019	Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio	Journal Article
Retweeting Risk Communication: The Role of Threat and Efficacy	August 2018	Sutton, Jeannette	Journal Article
Rumor Response, Debunking Response, and Decision Makings of Misinformed Twitter Users during Disasters	May 2018	Zhuang, Jun	Journal Article
Search Engines: Terrorism's Killer App	July 2008	Harwood, Paul; Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Social Media Use during Disasters: A Review of the Knowledge Base and Gaps	December 2012	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	START Reports
Social Media Use during Disasters Fact Sheet	May 2013	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	Project Fact Sheet
Strategic Uses of the Internet by Hizbut Tahrir-Indonesia	May 2009	McLeod, Douglas M.	Book Chapter
Taking Effective Risk and Crisis Communication for Granted?	August 2013	Liu, Brooke; Petrun, Elizabeth	Discussion Point
Terrorist Propaganda After the Islamic State: Learning, Emulation, and Imitation	December 2019	Braddock, Kurt	Book Chapter
Terse Message Amplification in the Boston Bombing Response	May 2014	Sutton, Jeannette	Conference Paper
The Online Caliphate: Internet Usage and ISIS Support in the Arab World	May 2019	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Paradox of Source Credibility in Canadian and U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Communications	April 2018	Szmania, Susan	Journal Article
The Scared, the Outraged, and the Anxious: How Crisis Emotions, Involvement, and Demographics Predict Publics' Conative Coping	April 2016	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	Journal Article
The Social-Meditated Crisis Communication (SMCC) Model: Identifying the Next Frontier	December 2020	Liu, Brooke; Jin, Yan	Book Chapter
The Use of Social Media by United States Extremists	July 2018	Safer-Lichtenstein, Aaron ; Yates, Elizabeth; LaFree, Gary; Jensen, Michael; James, Patrick	Research Brief
Toward More Audience-Oriented Approaches to Crisis Communication and Social Media Research	January 2018	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia	Book Chapter
Trends of Anashid Usage in Da‘esh Video Messaging and Implications for Identifying Terrorist Audio and Video	January 2019	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
Triggered by Defeat or Victory? Assessing the Impact of Presidential Election Results on Extreme Right-Wing Mobilization Online	August 2020	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
Understanding Motivated Publics during Disasters: Examining Message Functions, Frames, and Styles of Social Media Influentials and Followers	October 2019	Liu, Brooke	Journal Article
Using Google and Twitter to Measure, Validate and Understand Views about Religion across Africa	June 2019	Adamczyk, Amy; LaFree, Gary	Journal Article
Vaccinating Against Hate: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Confer Resistance to Persuasion by Extremist Propaganda	November 2019	Braddock, Kurt	Journal Article
Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization	June 2020	Braddock, Kurt	Book

Title	Byline
Unconventional Weapons and Technology (UWT) researchers present at 79th Midwest Political Science Association Conference
Unconventional Weapons and Technology team present research on influence operations at Laboratory for Analytic Sciences symposium	Erin Copland
START researchers participate in Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) Global Summit	Erin Copland
UWT director speaks about influence operations for Laboratory for Analytic Sciences podcast	Erin Copland
Taken to extremes: Faculty Q&A with Michael Jensen	Liam Farrell
START formalizes commitment to Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism	Erin Copland
UMD researchers win $1.5M Minerva Grant to understand social media information campaigns	Jessica Rivinius
Farah Pandith explores how to defeat the extremist threat	Erin Copland
Innovative START project wins UMD-TEC seed funding	Zane Moses
Computational Social Science: Understanding terrorist attacks on Twitter	Erin C. McGrath, Cody Buntain
Risk communication researchers earn top paper awards
START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability	Jessica Rivinius
START’s TRACC receives FEMA approval	Jessica Rivinius
Discussion Point: Taking Effective Risk and Crisis Communication for Granted?	Elizabeth Petrun, Brooke Liu
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
Under Secretary Sonenshine speaks to University of Maryland about State Department's public diplomacy successes	Mary Beck
New Book: European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet
START to expand social media presence	Mary Beck
START Research Brief: Al-Shabaab's use of Twitter
New report: Social media use during disasters
Detecting deception
START researcher awarded top paper
START researchers awarded nearly $1 million to improve effectiveness of emergency alert text messaging	Nicholas Munson
Interns extend growing relationship between START and State Department	Kelly Kline
START Releases 2011 Research Review
START Investigators Participate in 2011 American Sociological Association Annual Conference
START Announces 2009-10 Terrorism Research Awards
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Title	Job Title	Institution
Alexandra Williams	Junior Researcher	University of Maryland
Amy Iandiorio	Researcher, GTD	University of Maryland
Brooke Liu	Professor of Communication and START Affiliated Faculty Member	University of Maryland
Holly Roberts	Affiliated Faculty, Strategic Communications Lead at Akoya
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Kurt Braddock	Assistant Professor, American University	American University
Max Erdemandi	Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition	University of Maryland
Megan Rutter	Junior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Rhyner Washburn	Cyber Intelligence Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Robert D. Lamb	ICONS Director and Associate Research Scientist	University of Maryland
Salma Bouziani	Project Manager/Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Sean Doody	Senior Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Tyler A. Clark	Data Scientist, Doctoral Student	University of Maryland