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The Psychology of Mass-Mediated Terrorism

Gabriel Weimann (2008). The Psychology of Mass-Mediated Terrorism. American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 52, No. 1, 69-86 The growing use and manipulation of modern communications by terrorist organizations have led communication and terrorism scholars to reconceptualize modern terrorism within the framework of symbolic communication theory. Some applied the theater-of-terror metaphor to examine modern terrorism as an attempt to communicate messages through the use of orchestrated violence. This article examines the psychological importance of the mass media for modern terrorism, the media tactics of terrorists, and the challenges they present to media organizations and governments. Special attention is given to the use of the Internet by modern terrorists and the rhetoric of terrorist Web sites based on 8-year-long monitoring of terrorist presence on the Internet and the analysis of more than 5,000 terrorist Web sites...continue to full post

Full post as published by Terrorism Research News on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).