Media and Terrorism

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Project Title	Investigators	Project Period
Global Terrorism Database (GTD)	Erin Miller, Gary LaFree, Laura Dugan	June, 2001 to October, 2022
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure (CT NEADS)	Barnett S. Koven	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Global Terrorism Database (GTD) Acceleration	Erin Miller	January, 2019 to January, 2020
Computational Modeling of Grievances and Political Instability Through Global Media	Gary LaFree	September, 2014 to September, 2019
Two to Tango: Government and Terrorist Group Actions in Colombia	Barnett S. Koven	March, 2018 to June, 2018
Resources and Resilience: A Computational Model of Strategic Influence		January, 2018 to June, 2018
Country Reports on Terrorism - Statistical Annex	Gary LaFree, Erin Miller	May, 2012 to May, 2018
Framing Global Salafi-Jihadist Messages in the West	Peter Neumann	July, 2012 to December, 2015
Comprehensive Testing of Imminent Threat Public Messages for Mobile Devices (MDP)	Brooke Liu, Hamilton Bean, Marcus A. Boyd, Michele Wood	June, 2012 to June, 2015
Mapping and Evaluating Online Salafi-Jihadism	Arie Kruglanski, Jarret Brachman, Michele Gelfand	July, 2012 to December, 2014
Social Media Use during Disasters	Brooke Liu	July, 2012 to October, 2013
Effectiveness of Counterterrorism Strategies	Martha Crenshaw	June, 2008 to November, 2011
Cell Groups and Individual Radicalization in Indonesia, United Kingdom, and the United States	Douglas M. McLeod	June, 2008 to December, 2009
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	June, 2007 to May, 2009

Project Title	Publication Date	START Authors	Publication Type
"Oxygen of Publicity" and "Lifeblood of Liberty" Communication Scholarship on Mass Media Coverage of Terrorism for the Twenty-first Century	November 2008	Keranen, Lisa	Journal Article
Advancing Crisis Communication Effectiveness: Integrating Public Relations Scholarship with Practice	December 2020	Jin, Yan	Book
An Analysis of Violent Nonstate Actor Organizational Lethality and Network Co-Evoluation in the Middle East and North Africa	February 2016	Young, Joseph; Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Asal, Victor	START Reports
Can taking down websites really stop terrorists and hate groups?	September 2017	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Discussion Point
Countering Terrorism: No Simple Solutions	January 2017	LaFree, Gary; Crenshaw, Martha	Book
Counterterrorism Net Assessment Data Structure	April 2020	Koven, Barnett S.; Lindquist, Katy; Erdemandi, Max	Project Fact Sheet
European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet	November 2012	Caiani, Manuela	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	April 2012	Atwell Seate, Anita	Journal Article
Exposure to Muslims in Media and Support for Public Policies Targeting Muslims	November 2015	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
Expressive Responses to News Stories About Extremist Groups: A Framing Experiment	July 2006	McLeod, Douglas M.	Journal Article
Images of Death and Dying in ISIS Media: A Comparison of English and Arabic Print Publications	January 2018	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
Is Viewing Mass Trauma Television Coverage Associated With Trauma Reactions in Adults and Youth? A Meta‐Analytic Review	March 2019	Pfefferbaum, Betty	Journal Article
Lying About Terrorism	April 2014	Young, Joseph	Journal Article
Marvel’s Civil War: An Allegory of September 11 in the American Civil War Framework	January 2013	Erdemandi, Max	Journal Article
Media Contact and Posttraumatic Stress in Employees of New York City Area Businesses after the September 11 Attacks	September 2020	Pfefferbaum, Betty	Journal Article
Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Terrorist Incidents: A Historical Perspective	February 2018	Pfefferbaum, Betty; Pfefferbaum, Rose	Journal Article
Media Effects Within the Context of Violent Extremism in the Post-9/11 Era	April 2019	Freilich, Joshua; Chermak, Steven	Book Chapter
Media Effects: Do Terrorist Organizations Launch Foreign Attacks in Response to Levels of Press Freedom or Press Attention?	May 2015	Asal, Victor	Journal Article
Media Salience and Frame Changing in the Coverage of Mass Shootings: A Comparison of Ideological and Non-Ideological Attacks	September 2019	Gruenewald, Jeff	Journal Article
Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina	March 2006	Tierney, Kathleen	Journal Article
New Media, Public Relations, and Terrorism Resilience	December 2012	Liu, Brooke	Book Chapter
News Frames and National Security: Covering Big Brother	November 2015	McLeod, Douglas M.	Book
Options and Strategies for Countering Online Radicalization in the United States	January 2013	Neumann, Peter	Journal Article
Perceived Media Influence, Mental Illness, and Responses to News Coverage of a Mass Shooting	April 2017	Atwell Seate, Anita	Journal Article
Personifying the Radical: How News Framing Polarizes Security Concerns and Tolerance Judgments	July 2005	McLeod, Douglas M.	Journal Article
Reactions of Oklahoma City Bombing Survivors to Media Coverage of the September 11, 2001 Attacks	September 2015	Pfefferbaum, Betty; Pfefferbaum, Rose	Journal Article
Social Media Use during Disasters Fact Sheet	May 2013	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	Project Fact Sheet
Surveying the Literature on Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency, and Countering Violent Extremism: A Summary Report with a Focus on Africa	January 2015	Pate, Amy	START Reports
Terrorism in the News: The Efficiency and Impact of Sampling Methods on Data Collection and Content Analysis	April 2016	Parkin, William	Journal Article
Terrorism Media Effects in Youth Exposed to Chronic Threat and Conflict in Israel	April 2019	Pfefferbaum, Betty; Pfefferbaum, Rose	Journal Article
The Death of bin Laden: How Russian and U.S. Media Frame Counterterrorism	September 2014	Liu, Brooke; Madden, Stephanie	Journal Article
The Media's Coverage of Domestic Terrorism	November 2006	Gruenewald, Jeff; Chermak, Steven	Journal Article
The Medium is Terrorism: Transformation of the About to Die Trope in Dabiq	August 2016	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
The Online Caliphate: Internet Usage and ISIS Support in the Arab World	May 2019	Piazza, James A.	Journal Article
The Scared, the Outraged, and the Anxious: How Crisis Emotions, Involvement, and Demographics Predict Publics' Conative Coping	April 2016	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia; Jin, Yan	Journal Article
The Social-Meditated Crisis Communication (SMCC) Model: Identifying the Next Frontier	December 2020	Liu, Brooke; Jin, Yan	Book Chapter
Toward More Audience-Oriented Approaches to Crisis Communication and Social Media Research	January 2018	Liu, Brooke; Fraustino, Julia	Book Chapter
Trends of Anashid Usage in Da‘esh Video Messaging and Implications for Identifying Terrorist Audio and Video	January 2019	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
Validating Extremism: Strategic Use of Authority Appeals in al-Naba' Infographics	May 2018	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article
When Data Do Not Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism	January 2019	Lemieux, Anthony	Journal Article

Title	Byline
Kurt Braddock’s ‘Weaponized Words’ teaches how to outtalk a terrorist	Monica Pizzo
Mohamed Nimer on the Americanization and Evolution of Islamism	Valerie Snaman
News media affects how Muslims are perceived, treated	Valerie Snaman
Is This Terrorism? / Why Does It Matter?	Erin Miller
New study evaluates English-language jihadist magazine	Charlotte Taylor
START study examines U.S. attitudes, beliefs before and after the Boston Marathon bombings
START seeking 2014 Outstanding Article Award nominations	Jessica Rivinius
Researcher Spotlight: Jeff Gruenewald	Keri Enriquez
START participates in UMD’s ‘Constitution Day 3.0’	Mary Beck
Researchers from START’s Training in Risk and Crisis Communication (TRACC) Program earn Top Paper Awards	Emily Smith
Can verbal communication quell terrorist violence?
Detecting deception
START investigators present research at national conference
START Announces 2011-2012 Terrorism Research Award Participants
Summer Course Offerings
START Announces Fellowships for 2005-06

Title	Job Title	Institution
Amanda Quinn	Faculty Research Assistant, GTD	University of Maryland
Anthony Lemieux	Associate Professor of Communication and Lead Researcher of the Transcultural Conflict and Violence Program	Georgia State University
Brooke Liu	Professor of Communication and START Affiliated Faculty Member	University of Maryland
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
Holly Roberts	Affiliated Faculty, Strategic Communications Lead at Akoya
Jacob Loewner	Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Jeff Gruenewald	Associate Professor and Director of the Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas	University of Arkansas
John Sawyer	Director of Strategic Corporate Research Relationships	University of Maryland
Karina Panyan	Research Assistant, Global Terrorism Database (GTD), START	University of Maryland
Kurt Braddock	Assistant Professor, American University	American University
Rhyner Washburn	Cyber Intelligence Researcher, START	University of Maryland
Stevan Weine	Professor of Psychiatry	University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Chermak	Associate Professor of Criminology	Michigan State University
Victor Asal	Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Public Administration	University at Albany, State University of New York