Given that terrorism is omnipresent on social media, it is imperative to study how seeing
terror content online is related to individuals' attitudes, behaviors, and emotions. This study …

The present study took an actor-based approach to explain news differentiation in terrorism
coverage. Actors were defined as non-Muslim sources, Muslim sources, and journalists …

Social media, as an important resource of information for many contentious topics, has great
affective potential in terms of anger and fear. We investigated how exposure to news about …

Media coverage on terrorism can lead to negative attitudes toward Muslims. We theorize that
undifferentiated news—ie, not explicitly distinguishing Muslims from terrorists—can …

Terrorism has the potential to divide societies. It is particularly relevant to investigate how
Islamist terrorism on social media is associated with Muslim minorities' attitudes and …

This paper analyses reporting on the topic of Islam in Switzerland from 2018 until the end of
2020. A quantitative content analysis of 715 articles from 10 newspapers in German and …

Differentiation between terrorists and Muslims can mitigate the negative effects of terrorism
news. In this study, participants were shown Islamist terrorism news in a quota-based 2 …

The intensive news coverage about terrorist attacks committed by the so-called Islamic State
(IS) has raised concerns about unwanted effects on intergroup relations between Muslims …

In the debate around Islamist terrorism, experts and journalists often refer to the notion of
“sleeper terrorists.” This notion rests on the idea that Islamist terror attacks in the Western …

In this paper, we investigate framing in the case of an imam in Switzerland. We conducted a
qualitative content analysis of 175 articles from Swiss newspapers and public broadcasting …