* WoRD GLoSSaRy *

*RACISM - practises and behaviour involving social and ecomonic discrimation, based on false assumption that one particular ethnic group or race is culturally and biogically inferior to another.


well this links into my study due to the fact that i can state or link that the misrepresentation of islam and islamaphobia is a form of racism and is a method how racism is provoked.


*RIGHT WING- having a conservative or facist polictical learning.

well you can argue, that some newspapers have a right-wing idealogy that cause racism to occur.


* STEROTYPE- the social classification of a group of people by identifying common characteristic and universally applying them in an often oversimplified and generalised way.

This links to my study, because the western media tends to sterotype Islam and people who are muslim as all being terrorist or sterotypes their beliefs without even knowing the truth.


* VALUE JUDGEMENT- a subjective opinion based on an individual attituts, beliefs and values rather than on any objective carteri.


Again i could say that the western media focus on islam at from a value judgement point of view, and they are subjective towards the topic rather then objective.

AL-JAZEERA- arab satilite television station based in and subsidies by the arab state of Qatar and widely viewed across the arab world. Al-jazeera coverage of the world events reflects the arab/ Islamic perspective and sensibilities.

This is very interesting to my study, as it a form of media that represent the other view. I can compare the western ideoligies with the islamic idealogie.

*ARCHETYPE- an often repeated character type or representation which is instantly recognise to an audience .

this can relate to the character type of a terrorist, 4 example always shown with the long beard or only to be muslim, and now this is what the audience recognise to be a terrorist charcter.

*CULTURE EFFECT THEORY- audience theory which argues that, in absence of real substinal evidence of the direct realationship between media text and people behaviour, the effects of media are long term. Constant exposure to particular message can be seen as slowly affecting judgement and attitudes in the same way that constant dripping water is.

this links in with my study because it uses the idea of drip drip theory in the media , and the idea of the effects of media.

* LEFT-WING- having socialist or communist polictical ideas that are critical to status quo in society, and ask 4 change in society.

this links to my study becuse newspaper can be left-wing and show a more different reponses to the situation.

* KNOCKING COPY- journalistic shorthand for newspaper articles that seek out negative ideas to the public eyes.

This links with my study because it the idea that the media is giving out the negetive issues of islam.