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Media and Terrorism

Title Sort descending Investigators Project Period
Cell Groups and Individual Radicalization in Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the United States Douglas M. McLeod -
Comprehensive Testing of Imminent Threat Public Messages for Mobile Devices (MDP) Brooke Liu, Hamilton Bean, Marcus A. Boyd, Michele Wood -
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media Gary LaFree -
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS) Barnett S. Koven -
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex Gary LaFree, Erin Miller -
Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies Martha Crenshaw -
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West Peter Neumann -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan -
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration Erin Miller -
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand -
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence -
Social Media Use during Disasters Brooke Liu -
The Role of the Media in the Recruitment of Terrorists: Mass Communication and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Muslims in Indonesia Douglas M. McLeod -
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia Barnett S. Koven -
Project Title Sort descending Publication Date Publication Type
"Oxygen of Publicity" and "Lifeblood of Liberty" Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-first Century 2008-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Advancing Crisis Communication Effectiveness: Integrating Public Relations Scholarship with Practice 2020-12-01T12:00:00 Book
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa 2016-02-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Can taking down websites really stop terrorists and hate groups? 2017-09-01T12:00:00 Discussion Point
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions 2017-01-01T12:00:00 Book
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure 2020-04-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet 2012-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Exploring Gun Ownership as a Social Identity to Understanding the Perceived Media Influence of the Virginia Tech News Coverage on Attitudes toward Gun Control Policy 2012-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Exposure to Muslims in Media and Support for Public Policies Targeting Muslims 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment 2006-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Images of Death and Dying in ISIS Media: A Comparison of English and Arabic Print Publications 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Is Viewing Mass Trauma Television Coverage Associated With Trauma Reactions in Adults and Youth? A Meta‐Analytic Review 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Lying About Terrorism 2014-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Marvel’s Civil War: An Allegory of September 11 in the American Civil War Framework 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Contact and Posttraumatic Stress in Employees of New York City Area Businesses after the September 11 Attacks 2020-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Terrorist Incidents: A Historical Perspective 2018-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Effects Within the Context of Violent Extremism in the Post-9/11 Era 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention? 2015-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Media Salience and Frame Changing in the Coverage of Mass Shootings: A Comparison of Ideological and Non-Ideological Attacks 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina 2006-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
New Media, Public Relations, and Terrorism Resilience 2012-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
News Frames and National Security: Covering Big Brother 2015-11-01T12:00:00 Book
Options and Strategies for Countering Online Radicalization in the United States 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Perceived Media Influence, Mental Illness, and Responses to News Coverage of a Mass Shooting 2017-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments 2005-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Reactions of Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors to Media Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Media Use during Disasters Fact Sheet 2013-05-01T12:00:00 Project Fact Sheet
Surveying the Literature on Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, and Countering Violent Extremism: A Summary Report with a Focus on Africa 2015-01-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Terrorism in the News: The Efficiency and Impact of Sampling Methods on Data Collection and Content Analysis 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Terrorism Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Chronic Threat and Conflict in Israel 2019-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Death of bin Laden: How Russian and U.S. Media Frame Counterterrorism 2014-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Media's Coverage of Domestic Terrorism 2006-11-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Medium is Terrorism: Transformation of the About to Die Trope in Dabiq 2016-08-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Online Caliphate: Internet Usage and ISIS Support in the Arab World 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Scared, the Outraged, and the Anxious: How Crisis Emotions, Involvement, and Demographics Predict Publics' Conative Coping 2016-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Social-Meditated Crisis Communication (SMCC) Model: Identifying the Next Frontier 2020-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Toward More Audience-Oriented Approaches to Crisis Communication and Social Media Research 2018-01-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Trends of Anashid Usage in Da‘esh Video Messaging and Implications for Identifying Terrorist Audio and Video 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Validating Extremism: Strategic Use of Authority Appeals in al-Naba' Infographics 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
When Data Do Not Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism 2019-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Title Sort descending Job Title Institution
person-default Amanda Quinn Faculty Research Assistant, GTD University of Maryland
anthony Lemieux Anthony Lemieux Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program Georgia State University
Liu_Brooke Brooke Liu Professor of Communication and START Affiliated Faculty Member University of Maryland
Gina_Ligon Gina Scott Ligon Director of National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE); Jack and Stephanie Koraleski Professor of Collaboration Science, UNO University of Nebraska Omaha
Robert_Holly Holly Roberts Affiliated Faculty, Strategic Communications Lead at Akoya
Jake Loewner Jacob Loewner Researcher, START University of Maryland
Jeff Jeff Gruenewald Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas University of Arkansas
Sawyer John John Sawyer Director of Strategic Corporate Research Relationships University of Maryland
Panyan Karina Panyan Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START University of Maryland
kurt braddock Kurt Braddock Assistant Professor, American University American University
person-default Rhyner Washburn Research Affiliate University of Maryland
Stevan_Weine Stevan Weine Professor of Psychiatry University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Chermak Steven Chermak Associate Professor of Criminology Michigan State University
Asal_Victor Victor Asal Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration University at Albany, State University of New York