The Role of Religious Identity in Media Coverage of Terrorism

• In Event: Media, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism

Brief Overview

Using structural topic models, the Global Terrorism Database, and Lexis-Nexis, we investigate whether US media covers terrorism committed by Muslims in a different manner than it does similar acts committed by non-Muslims. Spoiler: they do.

Authors

• Bryan Joseph Arva, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

• Muhammed Y. Idris, Harvard University

• Fouad Pervez, Georgetown University