عنوان

What is 'terrorism?' Social geometry and the media labeling of political violence

شماره

TL48853

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

What is 'terrorism?' Social geometry and the media labeling of political violence

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Daniel J. Boches

نام ساير پديدآوران

Tucker, James E.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of New Hampshire

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016

نام خاص و کميت اثر

138

متن يادداشت

Committee members: Dillon, Michele M.; Fox, Nicole S.

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-85489-2

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

M.A.

نظم درجات

Sociology

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of New Hampshire

امتياز متن

2016

متن يادداشت

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, terrorism has dominated media discourse. However, what constitutes an act of "terror" has been the subject of much debate. This thesis proposes three theoretical formulations that explain and predict under what circumstances political violence is labeled "terrorism" in mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. Adopting Donald Black's theoretical strategy of "social geometry," I analyze the social characteristics and relations between and among participants engaged in acts of political violence including the attacker(s), victim(s), and third parties (i.e., media outlets). This analysis illuminates how media labels increase in severity as the levels of intimacy between the attacker(s) and victim(s) decrease. For example, attacks between residents of different cities are more likely to be labeled "terrorism" than attacks between neighbors. I also argue that attacks perpetuated by culturally unconventional attackers toward conventional victims increase the likelihood of severe media labeling. For example, an attack by a Muslim against a Christian in the United States is more likely to garner the "terrorism" label than an attack in the opposite direction. Finally, I argue that media labeling increases in severity when the newspaper reporting on the attack is socially close to the victim(s) and socially distant from the attacker(s). In other words, as the ideological slant of the newspaper becomes increasingly different from the ideological motivations of the attacker(s), "terrorism" is more likely to be reported. This thesis evaluates how race, religion, and social networks structure how mass media frames political violence.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sociology; Mass communications

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Media frames;Political violence;Pure sociology;Social geometry;Terrorism

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stahl, Megan

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Tucker, James E.

تقسيم فرعي

Sociology

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of New Hampshire

شماره بازیابی

1809794117; 10127452

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y