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Terrified : how anti-Muslim fringe organizations became mainstream / Christopher Bail

Bail, Christopher, ca. 20. Jh.

Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2015

XIX, 223 S. : graph. Darst. ; 25 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references, notes and index

0-691-15942-4 ; 978-0-691-15942-3

GBB522310

OCoLC: 877364279     

OCoLC: 902825988 (aus SWB)     

LB 46610  | MS 4710      Ähnliche Literatur

BP52

305.6/97 ; 305.6970973

*USA ; Islamfeindlichkeit      Zum Register

*USA ; Islamfeindlichkeit      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Islam -- Public opinion ; Islamophobia ; Corporations -- Religious aspects ; Islam ; Islam -- Public opinion -- United States ; Islamophobia -- United States ; Corporations -- Religious aspects -- United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General

"Bail traces how the anti-Muslim narrative of the political fringe has captivated large segments of the American media, government, and general public, validating the views of extremists who argue that the United States is at war with Islam and marginalizing mainstream Muslim-Americans who are uniquely positioned to discredit such claims. Drawing on cultural sociology, social network theory, and social psychology, he shows how anti-Muslim organizations gained visibility in the public sphere, commandeered a sense of legitimacy, and redefined the contours of contemporary debate, shifting it ever outward toward the fringe. Bail illustrates his pioneering theoretical argument through a big-data analysis of more than one hundred organizations struggling to shape public discourse about Islam, tracing their impact on hundreds of thousands of newspaper articles, television transcripts, legislative debates, and social media messages produced since the September 11 attacks. The book also features in-depth interviews with the leaders of these organizations, providing a rare look at how anti-Muslim organizations entered the American mainstream." -- Publisher's description

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The cultural environment of collective behavior : How civil society organizations create cultural change ; The argument ; Studying cultural change with big data -- From the slave trade to the September 11th attacks : Civil society organizations and Islam in early American history ; The Middle East conflict ; The emergence of the mainstream ; The foundation of the fringe -- The September 11th attacks and the rise of anti-Muslim fringe organizations : Shaping shared understandings of Islam in the media ; Making the news ; Why fringe organizations fascinate ; Studying the evolution of shared understandings of Islam in the mass media ; Islam in the American media, 2001-3 ; The fearful fringe -- The rip tide: mainstream Muslim organizations respond : Condemning terrorism ; Condemning the fringe ; Splintering within the mainstream -- Fringe benefits: how anti-Muslim organizations became mainstream : Fringe networks ; From the fringe to the mainstream ; How fringe organizations become authorities about Islam -- The return of the repressed in the policy process : Casting mainstream Muslim organizations as radicals ; Marginalizing mainstream Muslims from the policy process ; Barack Hussein Obama: the 2008 election ; Local politics and the growth of anti-Shariʼah legislation ; Training counterterrorism agents -- Civil society organizations and public understandings of Islam : The struggle to shape American public attitudes toward Islam ; Using big data to study how civil society organizations shape public understandings of Islam ; Anti-mosque activity -- The evolution of cultural environments: Lost in translation ; Lessons learned ; The evolution of cultural environments -- Methodological appendix : Sampling civil society organizations and press releases: Mapping cultural environments, Measuring social psychological processes, Tracing the evolution of culture using plagiarism detection software, Alternative explanations of cultural change, in-depth interviews