Do journalists differentiate between Muslims and Islamist terrorists?
- Autor(en)
- Christian von Sikorski, Desiree Schmuck, Jörg Matthes, Claudia Klobasa, Helena Knupfer, Melanie Saumer
- Abstrakt
We examined how Muslims are depicted in connection with Islamist terrorism and to what extent journalists use undifferentiated coverage – that actively links Muslims to terrorism – and differentiated coverage that actively differentiates Muslims from terrorism. Drawing from research in journalism studies and from terror management theory, we examined media-specific and event-specific predictors using a quantitative content analysis (12 quality/tabloid newspapers from three countries, N = 1071 articles). Results reveal that undifferentiated coverage occurs in almost every other article. Differentiation occurs much less. Tabloids use undifferentiated and differentiated coverage in fact-oriented and opinion-oriented articles. Quality news only do so in opinion-oriented articles. Proximity of a terror event resulted in more undifferentiated and less differentiated coverage. Results have important implications for journalism practice, terrorism research and intergroup relations.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universität Koblenz-Landau, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universität Wien
- Journal
- Journalism
- Band
- 23
- Seiten
- 1171-1193
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 23
- ISSN
- 1464-8849
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884921990223
- Publikationsdatum
- 05-2021
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Communication, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/74885157-7b63-4db7-b76a-b3728af47a29