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If it looks like violent extremism, and acts like violent extremism … : comparing the framing of two Sydney stabbing attacks
Communication research and practice
2025
Abstract
Within one week of April in 2024, the city of Sydney was rocked by two separate violent stabbing attacks. In one case, after the stabbing of two Coptic clerics by a young Muslim man, the government and media were quick to establish that this was a terrorist attack. In the other case, where five women and one man were killed in a shopping centre by a man who targeted women, the blame was not levelled at ideological extremism but rather ‘psychological problems’ and was not considered a terrorist incident. In this paper, we examine the relative framing of these two events by politicians and the media. We highlight how framing violence against women in episodic, individualistic, and situational ways, as opposed to an expression of a thematic, public, and pervasive issue, diminishes the capacity to respond effectively to misogynistic violence.
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- Title
- If it looks like violent extremism, and acts like violent extremism … : comparing the framing of two Sydney stabbing attacks
- Authors/Creators
- Sian Tomkinson - The University of Western AustraliaTauel Harper - Murdoch University, School of Media and Communication
- Publication Details
- Communication research and practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Number of pages
- 17
- Identifiers
- 991005795471707891
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media and Communication
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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