TY  - THES
AV  - public
N2  - Mass media has played a central role in the construction of the Islamist terrorist 
stereotype into the audience imaginary. The lack of representation of Islamic 
communities in the press, and a partial and bias coverage about terrorist attacks not only 
increase intolerance and xenophobia but also is collaborated to build a perception of an 
unsafe society. 
The aim of this research is finding if the mass media has collaborated to the increasingly 
popular perception of Islamic Terrorism as a global threat, by stereotyping the Muslim 
community out and in the West.  
Principal finds shown that since the coverage of the 11th September 2001 terrorist 
attacks until the end of 2015, the association of the word ?Islamic? with the word 
?terrorist? has increased in the media channels. One of the reasons for this rise is the 
polarised narrative presented by the newspapers which mainly reproduced Western 
discourse 
Findings also displayed an unbalance in the portrayal of victims of terrorism. This 
portrayal tended to humanise the Western victims and dehumanise the Eastern ones, 
what might impact in the choice of the audience to support one side and ignore the other 
one.
A1  - Roldao, Ana Paula
ID  - go225
M1  - masters
Y1  - 2018///
TI  - Media And Collective Fear: Has mass media contributed to create an atmosphere of collective fear addressing Islamic terrorism?
UR  - http://go.griffith.ie/225/
PB  - Griffith College Dublin
KW  - Xenophobia
KW  -  Islamic Terrorism as a global threat and Stereotyping the Muslim
ER  -