See something, say something? The role of online self-disclosure on fear of terror among young social media users

R Kaskeleviciute, H Knupfer… - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Given that terrorism is omnipresent on social media, it is imperative to study how seeing
terror content online is related to individuals' attitudes, behaviors, and emotions. This study …

Biased Social Media Debates About Terrorism? A Content Analysis of Journalistic Coverage of and Audience Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on YouTube

L Rothenberger, V Hase - Social Media+ Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media are an important source of news during crises such as terrorist attacks.
However, how news media and their audiences make sense of terrorism on social media is …

Between psychopathology and ideology: challenges and practices in interpreting young extremists experiencing mental illness in the Netherlands

F Vermeulen, M van Leyenhorst, I Roex… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
How violent extremism is interpreted among adolescents and young adults who experience
a form of psychopathology can have far-reaching consequences for these youth and for …

Terrorist organizations in the news: A computational approach to measure media attention toward terrorism

L Hellmüller, V Hase, P Lindner - Mass Communication and Society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Media play a vital role in sha** public perceptions of political violence, including terrorism.
By covering extremists, media grant terrorists organizations access to a global audience …

Who was hurt? Effects of victim characteristics in news articles about far-right violence on fear and terrorism label use

H Knupfer, R Kaskeleviciute, J Matthes - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Right-wing extremist (RWE) violence and terrorism pose a severe threat to Western
societies, including Germany. This study tests how differences in journalistic descriptions of …

A clinical and psychopathological approach to radicalization among adolescents

N Campelo, A Oppetit, C Thompson, D Cohen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have shown higher rates of radicalization of adolescents than in the 2000s.
Since 2015, radicalization prevention units have been implemented in child and adolescent …

Challenging the global cultural conflict narrative: An automated content analysis on how perpetrator identity shapes worldwide news coverage of Islamist and right …

C Chan, H Wessler, M Jungblut… - … Journal of Press …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent terrorist attacks such as the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019 renew the
discussion of whether right-wing attacks are reported less negatively than Islamist attacks …

Signaling resolve through credit-claiming

IB Onder - International Interactions, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
What explains when militant groups claim attacks? In this study, I argue that militant groups
are more likely to claim attacks early in the organization's lifespan and after major blows to …

A perpetrator by any other name: Unpacking the characterizations and consequences of the “terrorist,”“lone wolf,” and “mass shooter” labels for perpetrators of mass …

M Campbell-Obaid, K Lacasse - Psychology of violence, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: To better understand the implications of applying different labels to perpetrators of
mass violence. Method: Two experiments (Study 1: N= 307 college students, Study 2: N …

When socialism meets terrorism: A computer-assisted discursive news values analysis of Chinese newspapers' coverage of domestic and international terrorist attacks

J Guo, J Mast, R Vosters - Mass Communication and Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Terrorist attacks, as a particular type of negative social event, are a potential threat to the
establishment of a “Socialist Harmonious Society” advocated by the Chinese government …