테러리즘 擴散要因으로서 커뮤니케이션의 役割 分析 및 對應戰略에 관한 硏究

Abstract

In the 21st century the frequency of full-scale warfare or localized conflicts between nation states are on the decrease while the new-found fear and threat of terrorism is spreading across the world. Especially the advancement of sophisticated communication systems and the development of various communication devices as part of today's progress in information-communication technology(IT) has greatly expanded the possibilities of terrorism surpassing national borderlines, which changed the structure of terrorist organization management and brought creation of transnational networks for these organizations which were until then mostly limited to localized areas. The dawn of the new multimedia era has opened a way for terrorist events to be broadcasted all over the globe and enabled the world fully witness the cause, current progress, number of dead, and even the terrorist's interview of the event; such spreading of the shock and fear has greatly affected the development public opinion on terrorism. Also the development of computer technology which is symbolized by the internet has brought the public ever closer to terrorism and changed the way information of terrorist organization are delivered and also changed the method oh communication within terrorist organization networks. This dissertation hopes to present the role inside the field of communication regarding prevention of proliferation of transnational terrorism by defining terrorism, communication and specificly examining the development and analyzing the relationship between transnational terrorism and global communication which has recently greatly risen in importance This treatise will also asses the influence of global communication on spreading of transnational terrorism by addressing it's effect on globalization. Through globalization borders have virtually disappeared and thus the differences in politics, economy, society and culture has intensified into inequality in the world. The rapid progress in information-communication technology has brought forth the era of global communication which made it's role as a way for globalzation to accelerate, which became the main cause of part of national power falling into the hands of population by the name of public opinion. Public opinion on terrorism can affect related policy making. and therefore the paper addresses the problems of the media which often leads the shaping of public opinion and investigated the media's undesirable functions to overstate and magnify terrorism from a point of contagion-theory view. Ultimately, by examining how global communication and globalization affected the spreading of transnational terrorism and addressing the transnational terrorist organization's network structure and their application of various communication methods this dissertation will search for a plan within the field of communication to prevent proliferation of transnational terrorism.