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Michael A. Innes is a UK-based journalist and academic. His research focuses on political violence and technologically mediated identity and communication, with a special interest in militant sanctuary practices, surrogate forces, simulated violence and virtual worlds. He  publishes regularly in academic, mainstream, and social media.

In 2006, he was appointed Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, and in 2007, he was named Research and Practice Associate of the Insitute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT),  Syracuse University. In 2008, he joined the School of Public Policy, University College London as  a doctoral candidate.

He sits on the editorial board of the Taylor and Francis journal Civil Wars, and edits the Insurgent Landscapes series at Hurst & Co. Publishers. He is the director of The Complex Terrain Laboratory, a virtual media lab, and the author of Monkwire. He served in the army from 1994 to 2003, and was a civilian staff officer with NATO from 2003 to 2009.