American and foreign terrorists
An analysis of divergent portrayals in US newspaper coverage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12918653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emlyn Crenshaw (Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-378 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2014.953306 |
| OpenAlex | W2076144022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 6 |
American news coverage of terrorist activity consistently portrays the attacker as abnormal, but the mechanics of this othering process are entirely dependent on the nationality of the attacker in question. Coverage of domestic terrorism stresses the attacker’s personal instability and contrasts the perpetrator with his or her victims, painting the terrorist as an anomaly in American society. Foreign attackers, with whom journalists more frequently apply the terrorist label, are othered in US news media through heavy emphasis on their association with distant groups and conflicts. To explore how framing techniques differ throughout coverage of domestic and foreign terrorists, two separate corpora of articles from popular American newspapers were systematically compiled. One corpus contained articles about American attackers, while the other contained articles about foreign terrorists. The corpora were processed using both corpus linguistics software and a comparative analysis of texts. Exploring the American media’s framing choices illuminates how popular biases and perceptions of terrorist violence came to be; framing theory asserts that communicating entities inevitably shape the story they relay, influencing the reactions of those who experience the event second-hand. Not only does news coverage use distinct framing patterns for American and foreign perpetrators, but those patterns foster a populace that conceptualises American and foreign terrorists differently
Content analysis · Criminology · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |