At #BYSTANDER22 @Linn_Sandberg presents on images of muslims in online & legacy news media.
Is attention to muslims greater online than in legacy media? Do representations differ? And are online representations more hostile (supporting the "online hostility thesis") 1/5
Is attention to muslims greater online than in legacy media? Do representations differ? And are online representations more hostile (supporting the "online hostility thesis") 1/5
The data is online and media documents from 8 countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, UK, France, Netherlands, Germany & Spain. And Word2vec models are used to analyze text and extract similarity scores between "muslim"/"islam" and neighboring terms. 2/5
In most countries (not Denmark) there is more attention to muslims/islam online than in legacy media. In some countries (but not all), more negative words are close to muslim/islam. In online space, however, there is a stronger connection to eg "extremist" and "terrorist". 3/5
In most countries, "Christian" relate to other religious terms. This is not the case for "muslim". This term is connected to other content types. 4/5
Overall, the is not clear support for the "online hostility hypothesis". But in online spaces "muslims"/"islam" is more often connected to discussions of, e.g., terrorism, which is in line with the hypothesis. 5/5
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