Table of Contents

Introduction – Media, Terrorism, and Society: Perspectives and Trends in the Digital Age 1. Solidarity Through the Visual: Healing Images in the Brussels Terrorism Attacks 2. Graphic Violence as Moral Motivator: The Effects of Graphically Violent Content in News 3. Online Surveillance’s Effect on Support for Other Extraordinary Measures to Prevent Terrorism 4. The Impact of Terrorist Attack News on Moral Intuitions and Outgroup Prejudice 5. "Muslims are not Terrorists": Islamic State Coverage, Journalistic Differentiation Between Terrorism and Islam, Fear Reactions, and Attitudes Toward Muslims 6. On the Boundaries of Framing Terrorism: Guilt, Victimization, and the 2016 Orlando Shooting 7. Proximity and Terrorism News in Social Media: A Construal-Level Theoretical Approach to Networked Framing of Terrorism in Twitter 8. U.S. News Coverage of Global Terrorist Incidents

About the Author

Shahira S. Fahmy is an internationally renowned scholar in peace journalism and visual communication. She is the first and only Arab-American journalism professor tenured at an American research university. Her seminal research has appeared in all the top-ranked journals, and one of her books received the National Communication Association book award.