ABSTRACT

The present study took an actor-based approach to explain news differentiation in terrorism coverage. Actors were defined as non-Muslim sources, Muslim sources, and journalists. Actors who generate undifferentiated statements actively link Muslims to terrorism, whereas actors who use differentiated statements explicitly distinguish Muslims from terrorism. We examined actor-specific, media-specific, and event-specific predictors of differentiation using a quantitative content analysis in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, 2015–2017 (12 quality/tabloid newspapers, N = 1071 articles). Results reveal that non-Muslim sources and journalists are more likely to make undifferentiated statements and less likely to make differentiated statements compared to Muslim sources. This gap between Muslim sources on the one side and non-Muslim sources as well as journalists on the other side is more accentuated for severe terroristic attacks and for articles mentioning dead and injured victims. For differentiated statements, the gap is also more pronounced in tabloid newspapers as compared to quality newspapers.

摘要

本研究采用基于演员的方法来解释恐怖主义报道中的新闻差异。演员被定义为非穆斯林，穆斯林和新闻工作者。产生无差别言论的演员积极地将穆斯林与恐怖主义联系起来，而使用有差别言论的演员则明确地将穆斯林与恐怖主义区分开来。我们使用定量内容分析方法，在2015-2017年的奥地利，德国和瑞士检查了演员特定，媒体特定和事件特定的差异预测因子（12种质量/小报，N = 1071条）。结果显示，与穆斯林消息来源相比，非穆斯林消息来源和新闻记者更有可能发表无差异的言论，而做出差异化言论的可能性较小。一方面，穆斯林的消息来源与非穆斯林的消息来源以及另一方面的新闻工作者之间的这种差距，由于严重的恐怖袭击和提及死伤者的文章而更加突出。对于差异化陈述，小报报纸与优质报纸的差距也更为明显。