What is it about?
Muslim women have largely been portrayed as passive victims in Western media. The Arab Spring showed a dramatic activism of women in the Muslim world that attracted a lot of attention in the West, in particular the news media. This study is a content analysis of still images of Muslim women during the Arab Spring that compares visual framing of these women on CNN with Al-Jazeera.
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Why is it important?
Comparing to the coverage of Muslim women in western media before the Arab Spring, this study found a significant change in the portrayal of Muslim women in Western media. In the Arab Spring, Muslim women were framed as more powerful, active, and visible, unlike the pre-Arab Spring years that they were portrayed as weak, passive, and predominantly veiled.
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To my knowledge, this is the first study that quantitatively compares visual images of Muslim women in the Western vs. Middle Eastern news media.
Ms. Shugofa Dastgeer
University of Oklahoma
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This page is a summary of: Visual framing of Muslim women in the Arab Spring: Prominent, active, and visible, International Communication Gazette, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1748048516640204.
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