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- The online news media's coverage of modern African terrorismPublication . Asongwed, Asaah Ndah; Santos, RogérioTerrorism has received increasing attention from scholars in the fields of media and journalism in recent years. Studies on the many relationships between terrorism and the news media abound. There is, however, a hiatus to be filled with regard to academic research that focuses on the particular case of African terrorism. It is precisely this gap that the dissertation seeks to narrow. Focus is directed towards the online news because of its increasing significance in the world of journalism, and today’s society, in general. Key journalism concepts such as framing, representation, discourse, stereotyping and bias are discussed and they find themselves at the center of the study since one of its main objectives is to define the journalistic coverage of modern African terrorism from a social constructionist perspective, taking into account the fact that one same event and phenomenon can be interpreted and constructed in several ways. With regard to the empirical section of the assignment, the coverage of two attacks on the continent by two of Africa’s most infamous terrorist organizations is analyzed: precisely, the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, which was claimed by Al-Shabaab and the mass abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, the night of April 14th, 2014 by Boko Haram. Through the analysis of the coverage of these events in the online news, light is also shed on several key aspects of the dynamics of news discourse on terrorism.