Introduction: Toward Hybrid Media Events of Terrorist Violence

Terrorist Events and Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Natural Experiment

Using a quasi-experimental research design, this study examines the effect of terrorist events on the perception of immigrants across 65 regions from nine European countries. I first elaborate a theoretical argument that explains the effect of events and points at economic conditions, the immigrant population’s size, and personal contact as mediating factors. To evaluate this argument, I use th...

Detection of Similar Terrorist Events

Event counting is significant when it allows us to discover and represent implicit knowledge. We realize that a particular event happens somewhere not just by mere chance, it is unlikely to be what we call as accidental event. E.g. the number of violent attacks and terrorist acts can give the measure of the safety for a given country and can help us to predict where and/or when similar events a...

Sexual Violence in Three Pornographic Media: Toward a Sociological Explanation

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On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events

The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence