Reporting Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism

• This study examines how the media construct the identities of the Other by creating various ‘us’ versus ‘them’ positions (Othering) when covering non-violence-based intercultural conflicts in Arab and Western news media. Othering in this study is understood as an umbrella concept that in general terms refers to the discursive process of constructing and positioning the Self and the Other into separate identities of an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ Previous studies have devoted considerable attention to rather conventional dichotomous constructions of Eastern and Western Others. This study brings to the fore more non-conventional constructions and, while recognizing the occurrence of the conventional constructions, goes beyond these binary oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Variations in the types of identity constructions found in this study can be attributed to the mode of the article, the actors included, the media affiliations and the topic and its overall contextualization.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Medievetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications -- Media Studies (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Media

reporting of migrants

image of Muslims

Western media

Arab media

journalism

media and conflict

Othering

post colonial theories

identity

Journalistik

Journalism

Medievetenskap och journalistik

Media Studies and Journalism

Media and Communication Science

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Humaniora

Humanities

Media and Communication Science

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Media and Communication Science

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Journalistik

Journalism

Media and Communication Studies

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

bok (subject category)