Tweeting about terror: A World Systems Theory approach to comparing international newspaper coverage online

Abstract

This study looks at news coverage of terrorist attacks on Twitter over a five-year period. It examines Twitter accounts of three US and three UK elite newspapers. This study found that terrorist attacks in core countries received more attention than attacks in non-core countries. Also, this study revealed that just three terrorist attacks: January and November 2015 Paris attacks and Brussels 2016 bombings, accounted for nearly a half of the overall US and UK tweets examined in this study.

Information dissemination during public health emergencies: analysing the international flow of COVID‐19‐related news

“…Economically powerful countries (such as the US and Western European countries) form the core. In contrast, periphery countries have weak economies, and semi‐periphery countries fall between them (Roman, Alkazemi, and Stewart, 2020). WST predicts a lack of balance in the flow of resources between the powerful core and the other nations due to unequal power relations (Golan and Himelboim, 2016).…”

Social and Emotional Intelligence as Factors in Terrorist Propaganda: An Analysis of the Way Mass Media Portrays the Behavior of Islamic Terrorist Groups

“…Thus, in the formulation of the hypotheses, the expression: external mass-media refers to foreign or multinational mass-media channels (for example BBC, or ABC). Furthermore, when establishing the hypotheses of the research we also took into account the results of previous studies which revealed that American media registered more tweets about terrorist attacks in core-industrialized countries than in non-core countries [66], and the results of studies that focused on analyzing several issues of the magazine of the Islamic State Group, entitled Dabiq. In this regard, the study revealed that in the magazine the most prominent visual theme was the theme of war and that the main messages sent by the visual elements presented in the magazine had political (49%), and religious content (37%), and only a few of them (14%) had social content [67].…”

Ètica periodística i ús d’imatges en els atemptats terroristes de Barcelona i Cambrils. Una anàlisi comparada de 14 mitjans digitals nacionals i internacionals

“…Con el fin de incorporar medios digitales procedentes de las distintas culturas periodísticas descritas por Hallin y Mancini (2004), se ha valorado la necesidad de contar con diarios de referencia en el espacio comunicativo catalán y español (Ara, El Punt Avui, VilaWeb, Nació Digital, El Nacional, La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Catalunya, El País y El Mundo), y también con cinco rotativos de calidad de cuatro contextos comunicativos diferentes (Estados Unidos de América, Reino Unido, Francia y Alemania). Los medios internacionales seleccionados (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde y Süddeutsche Zeitung) son reconocidos como instituciones periodísticas capaces de marcar la agenda en sus países y más allá de sus fronteras, por lo que han sido empleados de forma recurrente como objeto de estudio en investigaciones comparativas sobre la cobertura mediática de atentados terroristas (Altheide, 2007;El-Nawawy y Elmasry, 2017;Matthews, 2016;Morin, 2016;Roman et al, 2019).…”