Tweeting about terror: A World Systems Theory approach to comparing international newspaper coverage online

Authors

Nataliya Roman, University of North FloridaFollow
Mariam F. Alkazemi, Virginia Commonwealth University
Margaret C. Stewart, University of North FloridaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2020

Abstract

This study looks at news coverage of terrorist attacks on Twitter over a five-year period. It examines Twitter accounts of three US and three UK elite newspapers. This study found that terrorist attacks in core countries received more attention than attacks in non-core countries. Also, this study revealed that just three terrorist attacks: January and November 2015 Paris attacks and Brussels 2016 bombings, accounted for nearly a half of the overall US and UK tweets examined in this study.

Publication Title

International Communication Gazette

Volume

82

Issue

6

First Page

507

Last Page

525

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1177/1748048519825993

ISSN

17480485

E-ISSN

17480493

Citation Information

Roman, N., Alkazemi, M. F., & Stewart, M. C. (2020). Tweeting about terror: A World Systems Theory approach to comparing international newspaper coverage online. International Communication Gazette, 82(6), 507–525. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519825993