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Media events: The case of international terrorism
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In this article, a theoretical media-event framework is proposed to analyze the uniqueness of terrorism as media drama and the commonalities with other kinds of media drama, and the attributes, social processes, and impact of media events are compared with these same factors in terrorist events.Abstract:
Media‐oriented terrorism has stirred growing interest in the communication strategy of modern terrorism and in the quantity, forms, and consequences of media coverage of terrorist events. One limitation of previous analyses is the lack of a theoretical framework to pinpoint the uniqueness of terrorism as media drama, and the commonalities with other kinds of media drama. A theoretical media‐event framework is proposed. The attributes, social processes, and impact of media events are compared with these same factors in terrorist events. The representative case selected to illustrate terrorist events is the June 1985 TWA airliner hijacking.read more
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Instrumental Actualization: A Theory of Mediated Conflicts:
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 213 print and broadcast journalists about the 35-hour working week dispute was conducted, and a content analysis of their news reporting about the dispute concerning the dispute was performed.
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The Media’s Coverage of Domestic Terrorism
TL;DR: This paper examined the media coverage of domestic terrorism in the United States from 1980 until September 10, 2001 and found that most terrorism incidents receive little or no coverage in the news, but a few cases are sensationalized in the press.
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www.terrorism.com: Terror on the Internet
Yariv Tsfati,Gabriel Weimann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the use of the Internet by modern terrorist organizations and attempt to describe the uses terrorist organizations make of this new communication technology, revealing differences and similarities between terrorist rhetoric online and in the conventional media.
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The Psychology of Mass-Mediated Terrorism:
TL;DR: In this paper, the psychological importance of the mass media for modern terrorism, the media tactics of terrorists, and the challenges they present to media organizations and governments are discussed. But the authors focus on the use of the Internet by modern terrorists and the rhetoric of terrorist Web sites based on 8-year-long monitoring of terrorist presence on the Internet and the analysis of more than 5,000 terrorist web sites.
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The Theater of Terror: The Psychology of Terrorism and the Mass Media
TL;DR: The authors examines the strategies and tactics of this new pattern of media-oriented terrorism and their impact on the audiences who, through the media's mediation, join the widening circles of victims of terrorism.
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The Structure of Foreign News: The Presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus Crises in Four Norwegian Newspapers
Johan Galtung,Mari Holmboe Ruge +1 more
TL;DR: Using a simplified psychology of perception and some additional assumptions, a system of twelve factors describing events is presented in this paper that together are used as a definition of newsworthiness, i.e., "newsworthiness".
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The image : a guide to pseudo-events in America
TL;DR: Boorstin's Prophetic vision of an America Inundated By Its Own Illusions has become an Essential Resource For Any Reader Who Wants To Distinguish The Manifold Deceptions Of Our Culture From Its Few Enduring Truths as mentioned in this paper.
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Making News by Doing Work: Routinizing the Unexpected
TL;DR: The authors examined five classifications used by newsmen to distinguish among events-as-news. But, they did not consider the organizational structure of news work and did not address the practical problems concerning the control of work.