Situational Threat And Response Signals (STARS): Public-facing Counter-Terrorism Strategic Communication Campaigns
The project establishes and elaborates a sophisticated and flexible appreciation of how and why communication campaigns designed to deter terrorism and deliver influence over public behaviour, achieve differing outcomes.
Through a blend of conceptual and empirical work, the project develops the ‘Situational Threat and Response Signals’ (STARS) framework to help understand how different signals of risk and threat are transmitted and interpreted across particular contexts and settings. The purpose being to establish and elaborate a more sophisticated and flexible appreciation of how and why communication campaigns designed to deter terrorism and deliver influence over public behaviour, achieve differing outcomes.
