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In Covering Muslims, Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen conclusively show that newspaper articles touching on Muslims are strikingly negative. They use cutting-edge techniques from computational social science to prove that articles that mention Muslims are far more negative than comparable stories related to Catholics, Jews, Hindus, African Americans, Latinos, Mormons, or atheists. The results examine how media outlets may contribute to pervasive Islamophobia, and encourages readers and journalists to „tone check” the media rather than simply accepting negative associations with Muslims or other marginalized groups.
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An examination of how American newspaper articles on Muslims are strikingly negative by any measure.
For decades, scholars and observers have criticized negative media portrayals of Muslims and Islam. Yet most of these critiques are limited by their focus on one specific location, a limited time period, or a single outlet. In Covering Muslims, Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen present the first systematic, large-scale analysis of American newspaper coverage of Muslims through comparisons across groups, time, countries, and topics. The authors demonstrate conclusively that coverage of Muslims is remarkably negative by any measure. They show that American newspapers have been consistently negative across the two-decade period between 1996 and 2016 and that articles on Muslims are more negative than those touching on groups as diverse as Catholics, Jews, Hindus, African Americans, Latinos, Mormons, or atheists. Strikingly, even articles about mundane topics tend to be negative. The authors suggest that media outlets both within and outside the United States may contribute to pervasive Islamophobia and they encourage readers and journalists to „tone check” the media rather than simply accepting negative associations with Muslims or other marginalized groups.
Extensive and significantly representative…journalists, editors, publishers, and those who train them (journalism and communication schools, religion departments, professional guilds) should take note.
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Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Chapter 1
Media coverage of Muslims: Introduction and overview
Chapter
The tone of Muslim coverage
Chapter 3
United States newspaper coverage of Muslims: Main patterns and group comparisons
Chapter
Time and tone: Major events and their impact on coverage
Chapter 5
Is the United States unique?
Examining newspapers from the Anglophone North and the Global South
Chapter 6
What do newspapers talk about when they talk about Muslims?
Chapter 7
Conclusions and extensions:
Islamophobia, constructing boundaries, and tone-checking the media
Appendix I
I.A. Corpus creation
I.B. Sentiment analysis
I.C. Geocoding
Appendix II
II.2. Chapter 2-Supplementary material
II.3. Chapter 3-Supplementary material
II.4. Chapter 4-Supplementary material
II.5. Chapter 5-Supplementary material
II.6. Chapter 6-Supplementary material
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