The Role of Mass Media in Terrorism and Its Effect on Individuals

Nowadays terrorism is one of the biggest problems in the world. In particular,
afterward the twin towers attack in the United States on September 11, 2001, this has become a
bigger problem for most of the countries in the world. Following in time the 9/11 terrorist attack,
many governments launched a war against global terrorism in different parts of the world. Even
the community psychology, which is not threatened by global terrorism, is negatively affected
by extremist groups’ coverage in media. Asian countries like Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic
of Korea are the best examples of that. For this cause, in this research two linear regression are
analyzed and Taiwanese newspaper text analyses are made. The main purpose and motivation
of this research is to analyze the importance of media on terrorism and terrorist acts and how
the media affects people’s thoughts and psychology.



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The Opinion of The Taiwanese Media on Pro-Independence and Pro-Unification with People Republic China During Tsai Ing-Wen Era

Abstract: Taiwan-People’s Republic of China (PRC) relations have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. These relationships are at the core of Taiwan's social and political life. The pro-independence and pro-unification social cleavage line affected by Taiwan-PRC relations divides Taiwan's political life into two separate camps. These camps are pan-blue coalition (pro-unification) and the pan-green coalition (pro-independence). In this study, the views of Taiwanese newspapers containing both camps on Taiwan-PRC relations are analyzed quantitatively. The study focuses specifically on the Tsai Ing-Wen period. Within the scope of the study, dictionary-based and sentiment analysis methods are used and the selected newspapers are examined with these principles. As a consequence of the quantitative analysis of these three English Taiwanese newspapers, it is shown that the media adopted a perspective similar to the views of the government and the DPP throughout the Tsai Ing-Wen period. Furthermore, sentiment analysis is done of the news from these newspapers relevant to PRC-Taiwan ties. It has been noted that the reporting regarding PRC-Taiwan ties in all three newspapers has a positive language.
Keywords: Taiwan, PRC, Text Analysis, Pro-Unification, Pro-Independence, KMT, DPP


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