Assignment:
Media and Terrorism
Create a 3 to 4 page paper
Addressing the role of the media as it relates to reporting and disseminating stories related to terrorism.
Select one past incident where the media has served as a force multiplier for terror groups, and explain how the media actually benefited the terror organization or promoted the desired effect by the terror group.
Then select an incident where the media had a positive effect in minimizing terrorist effectiveness, and explain how or why.
State what you see as the role of social networking as it relates to both enabling terrorist activity and thwarting it.
Analyze the standard response methodologies (at least four) used by the media to communicate a terrorist organizations message and how social networking can be used to enable and thwart terrorist activities.