ABSTRACT
Research on media and terrorism is crucial, especially amid the increase in terrorism activities. In the call for papers, manuscripts were solicited that offered to build upon traditional approaches to mass media’s role in shaping and amplifying terrorism issues by opening new space for including how the social and/or mass media have communicated terrorism, specifically with the evolution of digital media. The special issue begins with Dan Berkowitz’s work that applies a semiotic lens to examine the role images of terrorism play in mediating healing and solidarity in both the local and the global media arena. K. Hazel Kwon, Monica Chadha, and Kirstin Pellizzaro build on terrorism scholarship and social media research by examining the framing of terrorism news in Twitter. They look at the global nature of public’s terrorism sense-making in the contemporary social media environment and delve into the role of news proximity in both audience frames and media frames of terrorism.
