Social and Emotional Intelligence as Factors in Terrorist Propaganda: An Analysis of the Way Mass Media Portrays the Behavior of Islamic Terrorist Groups

In the era of speed and technology, mass media has an important role in keeping people informed about events happening all around world, but also shaping their opinion. One main issues that mass-media focuses on is represented by terrorist propaganda. Nowadays, attacks have become more frequent, we argue that, due to social emotional intelligence, terrorists power manipulate not only media. The purpose our paper was assess way Romanian foreign online channels present information Islamic groups activities developed them, order raise awareness matter propaganda promoting it. conduct research, content analysis used as a method. A total 36 news presented were analyzed. result research revealed focus using words with aggressive content, religious cultural-geographic content. Therefore, results presents can unintentionally contribute promotion