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What is terrorism (according to the news)? How the German press selectively labels political violence as “terrorism”

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2023
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Hase, V. (2023). What is terrorism (according to the news)? How the German press selectively labels political violence as “terrorism.” Journalism, 24, 398–417. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211017003

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Baghdad, Christchurch or Paris: Over the last years, many cities were the location of extremist attacks – but only some incidents were covered as “terrorism”. Journalists selectively attach the label to particular acts of political violence. This study analyses how characteristics of attacks and their perpetrators influence whether news media portray incidents as terrorism. Based on attacks between 2012 and 2018 (N = 86,668) and their coverage in the German press (N = 5411), the study finds that highly lethal incidents in Western coun

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  • Hase, Valerie

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24

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2

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398

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417

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Keywords

Conflict, crisis, extremism, political violence, social identity theory, terrorism

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English

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2023-02-01

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2021-05-20

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1464-8849

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Hase, V. (2023). What is terrorism (according to the news)? How the German press selectively labels political violence as “terrorism.” Journalism, 24, 398–417. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211017003

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