Tweeting about terror: A World Systems Theory approach to comparing international newspaper coverage online
- 29 January 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Communication Gazette
- Vol. 82 (6) , 507-525
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.Keywords
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