Measuring media oriented terrorism

Surette, Ray; Hansen, Kelly; Noble, Greg

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2009.06.011

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“…Figure 4 very much confirms that in weeks where the terror attacks occurred, so was the newspaper coverage higher, and that the peaks in 11 Other research areas also study connections between media and crime, sometimes with connections to terrorism. For example, Surette, Hansen and Noble (2009) articles about jihadi terrorism correspond to the jihadi terror attacks which either occurred in Western Europe or whose victims where British citizens.…”

Section: Media Magnificationmentioning

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Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

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Section: Media Magnificationmentioning

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Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

2019

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“…In many cases they are the only source of the state of mind of a candidate copycat offender and the presence of statements provides a level of face validity to a copycat crime assessment, particularly if sourced to the offender (Junger-Tas and Marshall, 1999; Thornberry and Kohn, 2000). Statements made by offenders describing the media as an important source of their crime idea are therefore regarded as providing an important indicator of a crime being a copycat crime and are given extra scoring weight (Meloy and Mohandie, 2001; Surette et al, 2009). Offender statements of the unimportance of the media are likewise seen as important indicators of the reduced likelihood of a copycat crime.…”

Section: Measuring Copycat Crimementioning

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Measuring copycat crime

Surette

2015

Crime, Media, Culture

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Copycat crimes have not been identified or measured in a coherent manner. To forward the study of copycat crime, a methodology was developed to empirically score crimes that are suspected of being copycat crimes on a scale from “unsubstantiated” to “substantiated”. The copycat crime measure utilized seven factors culled from the extant literature to differentiate and score a demonstration set of 51 candidate copycat crimes associated with commercial entertainment films. Two examples of analysis and research questions that can be subsequently pursued utilizing the scoring approach are provided. A means of measuring copycat crime will provide interested researchers the capability to examine research questions related to copycat crime trends, media content and copycat crime, social media and copycat crime, and different types of copycat crime.

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“…Are media plainly complying with the demands of the terrorists? To dismiss the 'compliant role' of media many media scholars have chosen to describe the calculus of media-terrorism relationship as 'mediaoriented terrorism' (Surette et al, 2009), 'mass mediated terrorism' (Nacos, 2007) and 'mediatised terrorism' (Cottle, 2006). According to Nacos (2007) (Nacos, 2007, p. 15).…”

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The media–terrorism symbiosis: a case study of Mumbai attacks, 2008

Iqbal

2014

Asian Journal of Communication

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There has been a long-standing debate among scholars, policy-makers, politicians and journalists about the relationship between terrorism and the news media for whom terrorism is usually a newsworthy story. A primary focus of the debate is to investigate the media-terrorism symbiotic relationship. This paper explores this relationship through a qualitative, thematic analysis of how British TV news channels covered a major terrorist incident after the 9/11 -Mumbai attacks 2008. It examines the interpretive theme of 'awe, terror and chaos', and how it is selected, prioritized and developed in the presentation of the events which spread over a period of more than 72 hours. Additionally, it considers the kind of political and organizational factors that might shape or modify the editorial decision-making processes and ideological assumptions that may lie behind such coverage. Ultimately, the study maintains that British TV news outlets play an important role in mediating terrorist messages and focus primarily on images of terror and violence during the coverage of Mumbai attacks. While there are key differences between public and commercial TV news in the style and presentation of coverage, with the former being more careful in approach, the news channels concentrate on televising death and injury and the propagation of chaos and confusion in the affected city.

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Measuring media oriented terrorism

Cited by 19 publications

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Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime

Measuring copycat crime

The media–terrorism symbiosis: a case study of Mumbai attacks, 2008

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