Key issue (Terrorism Coverage)

Terrorism Risk Coverage

Although international terrorism is not a new risk, the perceived nature of risk associated with terrorist attacks has changed radically with the unutterably abominable September 11, 2001 events (9/11) (Liedtke and Courbage, 2002). These attacks killed nearly 3,050 persons, leading people to perceive in which state of insecurity they were living. Until then the risk of such large-scale attacks ...

Special issue on terrorism and responses to terrorism

Politicians in the United States have invoked the term “war” to develop national support for an all-out attack on criminal behavior on at least three separate occasions since World War II: the wars on crime, drugs, and terrorism. In each case, the word has been used as a metaphor to underscore the conviction that society is involved in a pitched battle and that there is no room for acquiescence...

Introduction to special issue on terrorism informatics

Since September 11th, the multidisciplinary field of terrorism informatics has experienced tremendous growth, and research communities as well as local, state, and national governments are facing increasingly more complex and challenging issues. The challenges facing the intelligence and national security communities worldwide include accurately and efficiently monitoring, analyzing, predicting...

Terrorism and mental health: the issue of psychological fragility.

International terrorism , domestic coverage ? How terrorist attacks are

The article analyzes to what extent news reporting on terrorist attacks globalized, regionalized, or country specific. We compare coverage on four terrorist incidents in the main news shows of the US edition of CNN, of Al Jazeera’s Arabic language service, of the British BBC, and of the German ARD. The analysis shows cross-national similarities in several dimensions: the analyzed media devote n...