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

Nataliya Roman; Mariam F. Alkazemi; Margaret C. Stewart

doi:10.1177/1748048519825993

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

Nataliya Roman, Mariam F. Alkazemi, Margaret C. Stewart

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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.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	507-525
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Communication Gazette
Volume	82
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519825993
State	Published - Oct 2020

Keywords

International media
social media
terrorism
World Systems Theory

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