What kind of islamophobia? Representation of muslims and islam in Italian and Spanish media

News media play a crucial role in the production and reproduction of stereotypes, in-fluencing public opinions regarding different groups and minorities. Thus, acquiring a deeper understanding of media coverage of Muslims and Islam is decisive for understanding the sources of public attitudes toward...

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Autores: Cervi, Laura|||0000-0002-0376-0609, Tejedor, Santiago|||0000-0002-5539-9800, Gracia, Monica
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:250575
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/250575
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/rel12060427
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Islamophobia
Islam
Muslims
Media
Representation
Content analysis
Italy
Spain
Descrição
Resumo:News media play a crucial role in the production and reproduction of stereotypes, in-fluencing public opinions regarding different groups and minorities. Thus, acquiring a deeper understanding of media coverage of Muslims and Islam is decisive for understanding the sources of public attitudes towards Muslims. This study aims at displaying how Muslims and Islam are represented in Italian and Spanish media. Focusing on the online version of the two most influential newspapers in each country (El Mundo and El País for Spain and Il Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica for Italy) from 2015 to 2020, the results show how Muslims in both countries are mostly framed either related to terrorism or within the general discourse on immigration. In both cases, they are portrayed as "others". The article also presents a novelty, defining and observing two different types of Islamophobia, Banal and Ontological Islamophobia.