Framing Cyberterrorism: A content analysis of The New York Times

The threat posed by cyberterrorism has grabbed the attention of the mass media. Concerned assessments of the cyberterrorism threat highlight infrastructural and sociopolitical vulnerabilities at risk of exploitation by appropriately resourced and intentioned actors. Approached thus, combined with figurative language within the framing of this threat cyberterrorism, emerges as a relatively straightforward danger of potentially catastrophic significance. This study aims to identify news related to cyberterrorism in The New York Timesto investigate issues highlighted which the term cyberterrorism is constructeddifferent conceptions of the identity of would-be cyberterrorists