Social Communication and Terrorism

An analysis of the terrorism from the point of view of the system of social communication allows to study their codes and their vision on the political fight. It is necessary to consider it as a use of the System of Social Communication, because it presents/displays a "attacking social interaction".

Notion of system of social communication

Understanding by System of Social Communication to a communication system in which an interchange of expressions between Means exists (emitting), and the hearings (receiving).

The phenomenon that pronounces in Mass media when an attacking social interaction of the type takes place terrorist "attempted", is verified easily how the modality of the aggression, the category of the social agents (attacking and victims), the expressions whereupon pronounces the vindication and the reaction on the part of the political and social Power, determine journalistic characteristics of the news that determined where it is published (pages of events, courts, the local present time, front page, etc.)

Notion of "system of social interaction"

If we analyzed the social dynamics that is triggered when a terrorist attack takes place, it is easy to state that:

1. In the first place, whatever the modality of the aggression by which an attack is constituted, this one is always result of a conduct that implies at least two social agents: the aggressor and the victim. But they do not act in a personal view, and the victims undergo the aggression as their members of some group.

2. Secondly, the terrorist aggression, is not limited the produced physical effect on the victims. The objective manifesto of the terrorist act obtains if a communication of masses takes part susceptible to present it socially and its yield is in the modification of attitudes (communicative yield).

However, unlike any other action whose objective is the social notoriety, the terrorist aggression is not limited the notoriety of the event, but that implies the notoriety of:

"¢ the aggressors and victims.

"¢ the symbolic legitimacy of the action (the vindication of the responsibility must formal and be demonstrated, and political the social reaction/must give by valid the vindication, recognizing its expressive character);

"¢ the aims associated to the action, (freedom, justice, order, revenge,...)

The "noéticos codes"; myth and rite

In the Terrorism, the aggressor by itself applies to his force in the execution of the aggression trusting that its political yield provides it, not it aggression, but the narration that codifies Mass media of Masses and decodifica to the social victim

If the Social Power and the Public opinion, analyzed this phenomenon and were able to dominate it, the terrorism would have to readjust its strategies and would finish leaving the aggression. The project of political performance, would have to have like immediate objective to carry out the pursuit of the present terrorist action by means of studies that did not contribute to the putting in scene of the aggression.

Bibliography:

PIÃ'UEL-RAIGADA, José Luis."Comunicación social y terrorismo" ".[en línea]. [Consulted: 15-01-2008]. Available in: http://www.psicotecnia.com/Comunicacionyterrorismo.pdf>