ABSTRACT
This chapter is an exploration of symbolic violence and the relationship between news coverage and terrorist events, cyberwar, cyber terrorism, media coverage of hate crime, and presentation of terrorism and war in fictional media. By the end of this chapter students should be able to recognize how violent media stories pressure government and media systems, understand concepts of domestic and international terrorism, and ways Asian and developing systems defy the historic Four Theories. Sequential Art: “The Bomb” illustrates domestic terrorism in the bombing of a women’s health clinic and how media reporting adds to a woman’s fears for her personal safety as a patient at the clinic. Key Concepts: symbolic violence, domestic and international terrorism, war, cyberwar, Malevolent Creativity, Four theories of the Press (Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, Soviet or Social-Authoritarian systems), alternate systems, Yin-Yang Hypothesis.
