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The Role of Stereotypes in Mass Media Representation of Muslim Fundamentalism - The View into Western Thinking

Authors: Zilvarová Lenka

Year: 2016

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	The Role of Stereotypes in Mass Media Representation of Muslim Fundamentalism - The View into Western Thinking	Despite historic awareness of the roots of fundamentalism in American Protestant movements there is no clarity about what fundamentalism is. We may hear of Jewish fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, or Muslim fundamentalism, for example, in scholarly literature as well as in popular areas like mass media production. In addition, in the 1990s other different notions such as Islamism, Salafism, Jihadism came into use to term Muslim fundamentalism in the news after the origins of fundamentalism were about to reveal. The stereotypes connected to all those phenomena were buttressed to multiply and took over the explanatory position. In accord with prof. Balagangadhara’s work I argue that the very identification of the stereotypes, that seemingly appear as descriptions of the world, and their structuring do not clarify the issue. This paper aims to ask what stereotypes are and why they persist with instructing people what their world is like. It necessarily proposes the view into western culture. Stereotypes inducing self-understanding dominate western thinking. My research on mass media representation of Muslim fundamentalism in BBC News and a Czech Television channel ČT24 shows that it rather portrays western social and cultural concerns than Muslims as such.	Stereotypes; Mass; Media; Representation; Muslim; Fundamentalism; Western; Thinking

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