The Islamic State in the news
- Autor(en)
- Christian von Sikorski, Jörg Matthes, Desiree Schmuck
- Abstrakt
We examined how the journalistic differentiation of Muslims from Islamist terrorists and terror news proximity (i.e., proximity of terroristic acts to viewing audience) influence the effects of news reports about terrorism by the Islamic State on Islamophobic attitudes. Drawing from social identity theory, findings from two experimental studies revealed that coverage not clearly distinguishing Muslims from Islamist terrorists (i.e., undifferentiated coverage) activated negative stereotypes about Muslims and, in turn, heightened Islamophobic attitudes. However, terror news proximity did not affect audiences’ reactions of fear, negative stereotypes about Muslims, or Islamophobic attitudes. We discuss the implications of those findings for research on terrorism as well as for journalistic practice.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Journal
- Communication Research (CR)
- Band
- 48
- Seiten
- 203-232
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 30
- ISSN
- 0093-6502
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218803276
- Publikationsdatum
- 10-2018
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Communication, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/07fe0367-bb9a-45db-8921-e5c7486e0ab5