‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?
@inproceedings{Reilly2008GooglingTA, title={‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?}, author={P. Reilly}, year={2008} }
In this chapter, the analysis suggests that Northern Irish terrorists are not visible on Web search engines when net users employ conventional Internet search techniques. Editors of mass media organisations traditionally have had the ability to decide whether a terrorist atrocity is ‘newsworthy,’ controlling the ‘oxygen’ supply that sustains all forms of terrorism. This process, also known as ‘gatekeeping ,’ is often influenced by the norms of social responsibility, or alternatively, with… CONTINUE READING
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