صورة الإسلام و المسلم الآخر في الإعلام الغربي : عوامل التشكيل و سبل التغيير

الملخص EN

In an era whereby the influential power of media and their ability to shape the individuals and societies’ stereotypes are increasingly omnipotent, due to their important role as an essential source of supplying and receiving information and creating images about societies, the image of Islam and Muslims is being more and more deteriorated and twisted in the western media.

The latter has closely concentrated on all what concerns the Islamic world and Muslims’ issues and related them to different negative stereotypes which, widely spread over the media nowadays, are collocated to different negative concepts namely terrorism.

Being as such, the current fact does not refute the historical genesis of the situation.

Within different contexts and using different tools and strategies, history reports abundant sources of negative stereotypes of Islam and Muslims since the early confrontations between Islam and the west.

Yet, the adoption of mass media has made the image even more negative and more spread, what comes to require the necessity of studying and diagnosing this image and exploring tools and strategies to correct it.