Paola Villano Stefano Passini Davide Morselli

Discourse and terrorism: the representation of Arabs in the Italian and international press since September 11, 2001

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Abstract

In everyday debates on topics such as cultural differences, it seems relevant to analyze not only institutional conversations or speeches, but also mass-media communications. The way the media portray social events contributes to the construction of our categories of explanation of the world. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the representations of the Arabs before and after September 11, 2001 in the Italian and U.S. press. Results show that in Italy articles mainly focus on contrasting illegal immigration and on the consequent political and legislative decisions. Instead, U.S. press is focused on enhancing the sense of ingroup belonging, relying on the sense of threat of the Arabs to Western culture.

Keywords

  • discursive social psychology
  • press
  • arabs
  • stereotypical representations
  • conflict

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