Consortium for Strategic Communication
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The Consortium for Strategic Communication (or CSC) is a think-tank at Arizona State University
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at Arizona State University
. It was formed in 2005 to apply communication research to combating terrorism
, promoting national security
, and engaging in public diplomacy
worldwide. It is composed of interdisciplinary scholars at ASU and partner institutions who are interested in applying knowledge of human communication to issues of countering ideological support for terrorism (CIST), diplomacy
and public diplomacy. The CSC offers undergraduate and graduate class, as well as, public lectures. COMOPS is the official journal of the Consortium for Strategic Communication (CSC) that provides nonpartisan commentary on current issues in terrorism/counter-terrorism, public diplomacy, and security from a human communication perspective. Each journal or blog post outlines a current issue of interest and analyzes the issue using principles from rhetoric, persuasion, organizational, political, and intercultural communication. The site is updated on a weekly basis in order to maintain its integrity of addressing current topics. Authors of this website are made up of faculty, graduate students of the CSC, and their invited guests.
for their project, "Identifying Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Embedding Story Analysts in Expeditionary Units."
In 2008, the Consortium of Strategic Communication received a grant from the U. S. Department of Defense to study the relatively new phenomena of self-organizing systems and armies of the future.
, answered the Consortium's question they posted on Youtube
about how scientists can better assist the military.
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
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History
The Consortium for Strategic Communication is an initiative of the Hugh Downs School of Human CommunicationHugh Downs School of Human Communication
The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication is one of the 30 academic units that comprises the ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Arizona State University.-Programs:...
at Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
. It was formed in 2005 to apply communication research to combating terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
, promoting national security
National security
National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...
, and engaging in public diplomacy
Public diplomacy
In international relations, public diplomacy or people's diplomacy, broadly speaking, is the communication with foreign publics to establish a dialogue designed to inform and influence. There is no one definition of Public Diplomacy, and may be easier described than easily defined as definitions...
worldwide. It is composed of interdisciplinary scholars at ASU and partner institutions who are interested in applying knowledge of human communication to issues of countering ideological support for terrorism (CIST), diplomacy
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...
and public diplomacy. The CSC offers undergraduate and graduate class, as well as, public lectures. COMOPS is the official journal of the Consortium for Strategic Communication (CSC) that provides nonpartisan commentary on current issues in terrorism/counter-terrorism, public diplomacy, and security from a human communication perspective. Each journal or blog post outlines a current issue of interest and analyzes the issue using principles from rhetoric, persuasion, organizational, political, and intercultural communication. The site is updated on a weekly basis in order to maintain its integrity of addressing current topics. Authors of this website are made up of faculty, graduate students of the CSC, and their invited guests.
Current research
Recently, the Consortium of Strategic Communication received a two-year, renewable grant of $2.5 million grant from the Office of Naval ResearchOffice of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research , headquartered in Arlington, Virginia , is the office within the United States Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S...
for their project, "Identifying Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Embedding Story Analysts in Expeditionary Units."
In 2008, the Consortium of Strategic Communication received a grant from the U. S. Department of Defense to study the relatively new phenomena of self-organizing systems and armies of the future.
People
- Steven Corman (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
, 1988) is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Communication at Arizona State UniversityArizona State UniversityArizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...
where he directs the Consortium for Strategic Communication. He is author or co-author of several articles and white papers on counterterrorism, strategic communication and public diplomacy, edits and blogs frequently at COMOPS Journal, and is also co-editor of the book Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism(2008, Peter Lang). Since 2001 he has served as an invited participant on numerous national and international workshops and symposia. In 2003-2005 he was a member of the Scientist Panel for the Strategic Operations Working Group at U.S. Special Operations Command. He has recently given invited presentations and briefings for the NATO Center of Excellence for Defense Against Terrorism, USJFCOM/USSOCOM, Asia Pacific Program for Senior National Security Officers, George C. Marshall European Center for Security StudiesGeorge C. Marshall European Center for Security StudiesThe George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies is a unique U.S. Department of Defense and German Defense Ministry security and defense studies institute...
, Army War College, and the State DepartmentUnited States Department of StateThe United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
, among others. Corman's other research interests include organizational communication systems, text and conversation analysis, social networks, and computational modeling/simulation.
- Pauline Hope Cheong (Ph.D., University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
) is a communications scholar in new media and culture. She is an Associate Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her research addresses empirical and policy questions of how we build community and social capital amidst an evolving global media landscape, particularly how minority groups access and appropriate media for social change and social cohesion. She has examined new media connections among religious and extremist groups, youths, and medically underserved populations, in North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
and AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Her research has been published in multiple international and peer-reviewed journals including New Media and Society, Information, Communication and Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Media and Religion, Health communication, Journal of Health Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and The Information Society. She is currently the Co-Principal Investigator (with Steve Corman, as Principal Investigator), of a grant from the Office of Naval Research of $2,588,162 (2009–2012) “Identifying Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Embedding Story Analysts in Expeditionary Units. She is a recipient of various research awards, including the joint visiting Post-Doctoral fellowship award by Social Science Research CouncilSocial Science Research CouncilThe Social Science Research Council is a U.S.-based independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines...
, U.S., and the Economic and Social Research CouncilEconomic and Social Research CouncilThe Economic and Social Research Council is one of the seven Research Councils in the United Kingdom. It receives most of its funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and provides funding and support for research and training work in social and economic issues, such as...
, UK and Top Research Paper awards at the annual International Communication Association Conferences.
- H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr.H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr.Harold Lloyd Goodall, Jr is an American scholar of human communication and a writer of narrative ethnography. He is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University...
(Ph.D., Penn State University, 1980) is professor of communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. A pioneer in the field of narrative ethnography, he introduced the detective figure of speech to revise high technology organizations and cultures in Casing a Promised Land (1989). He also toured and played rhythm guitar in the Whitedog band, investigating rock and roll as a social theory of everyday working life in Living in the Rock n Roll Mystery (1991). He also went undercover to discover alternative forms of religion and spirituality in the southern region of the United States in Divine Signs: Connecting Spirit to Community (1996). He coauthored of Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint, 6th ed. (Bedford/St. Martins, 2009), and he authored the highly acclaimed Writing the New Ethnography (AltaMira Press, 2000). His memoir, A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family (Left Coast Press, 2006), won the Best Book of 2007 award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association. In 2003 the National Communication Association gave him the Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship. His most recent work is in applying theories of communication and narratives to the challenge of countering ideological support for terrorism. During this time, he has served as a U.S. Department of State International Speaker and has produced an edited volume, with Steve Corman and Angela Trethewey, Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication and the War of Ideas (Peter Lang, 2008). He is currently the Co-Principal Investigator (with Steve Corman, as Principal Investigator), of a grant from the Office of Naval Research of $2,588,162 (2009–2012) “Identifying Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Embedding Story Analysts in Expeditionary Units.
- Angela Trethewey (Ph.D., Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPurdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
) is Director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University, and is a member of the Consortium for Strategic Communication. Her scholarship centers on issues of ideology and power as they impact strategic communication processes. She is currently working on a Department of Defense sponsored project on self-organizing systems and armies of the future. She is co-author of the best-selling book Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint, (6th ed. Bedford/St. Martins, 2009). And is co-editor of Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication and the War of Ideas (Peter Lang, 2008).
- Chris Lundry is an Assistant Research Professor in the Arizona State University Hugh Downs School of Communications Consortium for Strategic Communication, where he is the group's Southeast Asia specialist. He completed his doctorate in Political Science (Comparative Politics) in May 2009. His dissertation focused on nationalism, state cohesion, and separatism in eastern Indonesia, and was supported by Fulbright, Blakemore Freeman, and ASU Dissertation Completion fellowships. He is fluent in Indonesian, and has worked as a United Nations accredited observer in the 1999 East Timor referendum, a Carter Center observer in the 2004 Indonesian presidential election, and with several NGOs in East Timor and the United States. At ASU, he has taught courses through the Program for Southeast Asian Studies and the departments of Political Science, History, Global Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies.
Media
On September 14, 2009 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael MullenMichael Mullen
Michael Glenn "Mike" Mullen is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral, who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2011. Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th Chief of Naval Operations from July 22, 2005 to September 29, 2007...
, answered the Consortium's question they posted on Youtube
YouTube
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about how scientists can better assist the military.
Selected publications
- Corman, S. R., Trethewey, A., & Goodall, H. L.(Eds.). Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Strategic Communication to Combat Violent Extremism. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.http://www.amazon.com/dp/1433101971
- Trethewey, A., Corman, S. R., & Goodall, H. L. (2009). Out of their heads and into their conversations: Countering extremist ideology.http://www.comops.org/article/123.pdf
- Lukens-Bull, R. & Woodward, M. (2009). Israeli nukes versus Palestinian slingshots.http://www.comops.org/article/122.pdf
- Corman, S. R. & Dooley, K. J. (2008). Strategic communication on a rugged landscape: Principles for finding the right message.http://www.comops.org/article/121.pdf
- Hess, A. & Justus, Z. S. (2007). (Re)defining the long war: Toward a new vocabulary of international terrorism.http://www.comops.org/article/112.pdf
- Woodward, M. (2007). Islam, pluralism and democracy.http://www.comops.org/article/113.pdf
- Corman, S. R., Trethewey, A., & Goodall, H. L. (2007). A 21st century model for communication in the global war of ideas.http://www.comops.org/article/114.pdf
- Justus, Z. S. & Hess, A. (2006). One Message for many audiences: Framing the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.http://www.comops.org/article/115.pdf
- Goodall, H. L., Trethewey, A., & McDonald, K. (2006). Strategic ambiguity, communication, and public diplomacy in an uncertain world: Principles and practices.http://www.comops.org/article/116.pdf
- Corman, S. R., Hess, A., Justus, Z. S. (2006). Credibility on the war on terrorism.http://www.comops.org/article/117.pdf