+1 862 207 3288 The following essay will examine the representation of the minority group; Islam across various news forms using the media as a powerful social agent, that plays a key role in shaping perceptions and attitudes around the world. Although the different media forms that range from newspaper articles to more advanced electronic sources are qualitatively different, their impact however is noted to be significantly widespread. The media evidently holds the utmost central position in defining frameworks and paradigms in which we come to understand and relate to a minority group as discussed by Cottle, 2000 . The essay looks at the changing representation of Islam, where the media is now portraying the Islamic minority group negatively using the 9/11/2001 Terrorist attacks in the USA as the pivotal point and major event that brought about this change in media coverage.
Before 9/11 the gene…(short extract)
