Why do some terrorist attacks receive more media attention than others?

EM Kearns, AE Betus, AF Lemieux - Justice Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Terrorist attacks often dominate news coverage as reporters seek to provide the public with
information. Yet, not all incidents receive equal attention. Why do some terrorist attacks …

Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer 'All Lives Matter'to 'Black Lives Matter'

K West, K Greenland, C van Laar - British Journal of Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has been called the 'civil rights issue of our
time'(Holt & Sweitzer, 2020, Self and Identity, 19 (, p. 16) but the All Lives Matter (ALM) …

Decolonialisation and the terrorism industry

I Mohammed - Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Decolonising academia has gained much traction in some global north and global south
countries over the last few years, resulting in initiatives such as decolonising the curricula …

Testing hypersensitive responses: Ethnic minorities are not more sensitive to microaggressions, they just experience them more frequently

K West - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial microaggressions have attracted significant empirical attention and have been
associated with profound negative effects. However, some argue against the importance of …

Patterns of bias: How mainstream media operationalize links between mass shootings and terrorism

SK Dreier, EK Gade, D Card, NA Smith - Political Communication, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
How do race and/or religion shape news media coverage of mass shooters and whether
media associate mass shooters with terrorism? This article combines natural language …

See something, say something? The role of online self-disclosure on fear of terror among young social media users

R Kaskeleviciute, H Knupfer… - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Prejudiced and unaware of it: Evidence for the Dunning-Kruger model in the domains of racism and sexism

K West, AA Eaton - Personality and Individual Differences, 2019 - Elsevier
Prior research, and high-prolife contemporary examples, show that individuals tend to
underestimate their own levels of bias. This underestimation is partially explained by …

How perpetrator identity (sometimes) influences media framing attacks as “terrorism” or “mental illness”

AE Betus, EM Kearns… - Communication …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Do media frame attacks with Muslim perpetrators as “terrorism” and attacks with White
perpetrators as the result of “mental illness”? Despite public speculation and limited …

Why do some terrorist attacks receive more media attention than others?

E Kearns, A Betus, A Lemieux - Kearns, EM, Betus, A. & Lemieux …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Terrorist attacks often dominate news coverage as reporters seek to provide the public with
information. Yet, not all incidents receive equal attention. Why do some terrorist attacks …

It's only discrimination when they do it to us: When White men use ingroup‐serving double standards in definitional boundaries of discrimination

K West, K Greenland, C Van Laar… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There is a widespread agreement that discrimination is bad, but disagreement about how
discrimination is defined and identified. Discrimination is sometimes defined narrowly …