Media, Terrorism, and Emotionality: Emotional Differences in Media Content and Public Reactions to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks

By Jaeho Cho, Michael P. Boyle, H. Keum, Mark Shevy, Douglas M. McLeod, Dhavan V. Shah, Zhongdang Pan. 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Media and Emotions (2005, background): “Aggression appeared in TV and newspaper coverage about equally frequently (Cho et al., 2003).”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “Other research found that news coverage of major world events, most notably the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks, triggered negative emotional responses, including anxiety (Bucy, 2003; Cho et al., 2003).”
Understanding the power of the picture: the effect of image content on emotional and political responses to terrorism (2014, background): “Research suggests that television images better capture visual attention and better convey emotional information than do still photographic images (e.g., Cho et al. 2003).”
Disclosure Tone and Shareholder Litigation (2011, background): “…of tone and has been used in many contexts, including presidential speeches (Bligh et al. 2004); television vs. newspaper coverage of major events (Cho et al. 2003); corporate annual reports (Yuthas et al. 2002); earnings announcements (Davis et al. 2008; Demers and Vega 2008), and other business…”
Affective News: The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political Texts (2012, background): “…of economic news coverage (e.g., Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2010; Lowry, 2008; Nadeau, Niemi, Fan, & Amato, 1999; Soroka, 2006), and work reﬂecting other diverse interests, such as Cho et al.’s (2003) research on the “emotionality” of television and print media coverage of the 9 / 11 terrorism attacks.”
How Disaster Information Form, Source, Type, and Prior Disaster Exposure Affect Public Outcomes: Jumping on the Social Media Bandwagon? (2015, background): “…crises/disasters differently (e.g., Littlefield & Quenette, 2007; Liu, 2010; Wigley & Fontenot, 2011), minimal research extends these findings to determine whether different news sources differently affect how publics respond during crises/ disasters (e.g., Cho et al., 2003; Dutta-Bergman, 2006).”