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Abstract
The mass media have an immense power in influencing how audience
members perceive their world. This is especially true as the mass media
have introduced places and people of the world that the viewing audience
might never get to experience first-hand. The exclusivity of the mass
media to introduce foreign people and foreign cultures to their viewers,
allows the mass media to define people and their characteristics. The
audience will likely be influenced into believing that by watching media
content that they know the people shown and their true nature.
Muslims and Arabs are essentially covered, discussed, apprehended
either as oil suppliers or as potential terrorists. Very little of the detail, the
human density, the passion of Arab-Muslim life has entered the
awareness of even those whose profession it is to report on the Islamic
world.
So, the researcher seeks to examine and analyze image of Islam in
foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitudes of a sample
of Egyptian adolescents.
Problem of the study
The representations that are related to Muslims and Arabs are based on
stereotypical and racist visuals that make them seem to have only
negative characteristics. The characteristics shown as it relates to
Muslims and Arabs show them as primitive, savage, barbaric,
unquestioning dogmatic followers of their violent religion, and
ultimately, violent. The pre-September 11th representations in the mass
media show brown Arab Sheiks who ruled over the vast wastelands of
desert in the Middle-East. This representation showed them as backwards
in terms of having no modern cities, and having no modern technologies.
The backwardness of the society shown in the media content related to
showing the people who resided there as uncivilized, violent towards
foreigners, and aggressive towards white women that they desired. The
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Arab Sheik eventually evolved into the terroristic individual that was
identified as being both Arab and Muslim. This terrorist individual unlike
the Arab Sheik character was shown to be a threat to the U.S., its people,
and its interests.
So, the problem study is formulated in examining and analyzing image
of Islam in foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitudes
of a sample of Egyptian adolescents.
Importance of the study
- The scarcity of media studies dealt with Islam and Muslim issues in
foreign electronic newspapers.
- Identifying media role in shaping public opinion. Media may take news
out of context and use deductive expressions to generalize the picture of
certain group of people.
- The study is close to reality as it deals with the image of Islam and
Muslims in critical period of our history after the ascending of extremist
groups to the power in some Muslim countries i.e. ISIS.
- Exploring the increasing role of media in defaming Islam and Muslim
image in the West.
Goals of the study
The study has a main goal as follows:
- Identifying the image of Islam on the websites of foreign electronic
newspapers and its relation the attitudes of some Egyptian adolescents
through the following:
- Exploring Islam and Muslim issues that are treated on the websites of
foreign electronic newspapers.
- Identifying journalism forms used in tackling Islam and Muslim issues
on the study websites.
-Shedding light on the journalism sources used in tackling Islam and
Muslim issues on the study websites.Recognizing persuasion strategies used in tackling Islam and Muslim
issues on the study websites.
- Discovering goals of treatment in discussing Islam and Muslim issues
on the study websites.
- Identifying the usage of pictures and videos in tackling Islam and
Muslim issues on the study websites.
- Identifying Egyptian adolescents attitudes towards the image of Islam
on the study websites.
Study questions
The study has a main question namely:
What the image of Islam in Foreign electronic newspapers and its relation
to the attitudes of some Egyptian adolescents ?
Here are some sub-questions as follows:
(a) The analytical study questions:
1- What type of Islam issues are treated in the study of foreign electronic
newspapers?
2- What are the journalism forms used in tackling Islam and Muslim
issues?
3- What are the journalism sources used in treating Islam and Muslim
issues on the foreign electronic newspapers?
4- What are the persuasion strategies used in discussing Islam and
Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers?
5- What are the treatment goals used in treating Islam and Muslim issues
on the foreign electronic newspapers?
6- How do the study websites get benefits from the internet in pictures
and videos usage?
(b) The field study questions
1- Do Egyptian adolescents follow the foreign electronic newspapers? 2- Do Egyptian adolescents read Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign
electronic newspapers?
3- What kinds of Islam and Muslim issues are attractive to Egyptian
adolescents?
4- What are the information sources of Egyptian adolescents about Islam
and Muslim issues and what is the rank of the study websites among such
sources?
5- What are the opinions of Egyptian adolescents about the suitability for
treating Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers
and the real existence of such issues?
6- What are the attitudes of Egyptian adolescents about publishing
Muslim issues and the attractive elements and journalism forms used in
the foreign electronic newspapers?
7- What are the adolescents benefits from journalism coverage of
Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers?
8- What are the adolescents achieved attitudes after reading Islam and
Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers?
Kind of the study
Our study belongs to the descriptive studies which aim at classifying data
and facts gathered from journalism content to obtain information and
accurate data and to know the feedback of the study population.
Methodology of the Study
Our current study depends on the following methodology:
1-Media survey method
The current study uses media survey methodology as it presents accurate
scientific effort which helps us obtain data and information about the
image of Islam on the foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the
attitude of some Egyptian adolescents. I will also use the two aspects of media survey methodology; namely, field and descriptive- analytical
ones.
Community of the study
Study analytical community
The study analytical community represents the websites of foreign
electronic websites of the New York Times and The Independent due to
the explorative study on adolescents to explore their preferred foreign
electronic newspapers. I analyze the two websites for one year using the
industrial week method from 1/1/ 2017 to 31/12/2017.
- Study field community
The study field community represents Egyptian adolescents who study
English language in English departments at Egyptian universities.
- The study chosen sample reaches 200 adolescents from the universities
of Al Azhar, Ain Shams, Tanta, Alexandria.
Tools of the study
1- Coding sheet
The researcher designed a coding sheet to analyze the websites of the
New York Times and the Independent. The researcher divided coding
sheet to sub-categories include issues, journalism forms, journalism
sources, strategies of persuasion, goals of treatment, and usage of pictures
and videos.
2- Questionnaire
The researcher designs a questionnaire in English language to collect data
from Egyptian adolescents who study English language as they have
curriculums require their reviewing foreign English websites.