Media mapping equates imagined Muslims with physical proximity to the West

Evidence

Conceptually at least, since the events of the Satanic Verses affair, the imagined Muslims and Islam of old that were once remote and distant now have the ability, irrespective of geographical location, to infiltrate the lives, homes and relative security of each and every front room in the West. The spatial mapping of the Western media no longer infers that either imagined or real Muslims are a separate externality but more so that the two are largely equated: both simultaneous and synonymous. As such, the undoing of proximities becomes that through which the local and global become infused and indistinguishable. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The secular map flattened sacred Muslim geography into profane coordinate space — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 653; Media mapping erased the distinction between real and imagined Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 240; Migration and global media collapsed the conceptual distance separating Europeans from Muslims — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 569 (+11 more)

Related

• Media mapping erased the distinction between real and imagined Muslims (similarity 0.94)
• Migration and global media collapsed the conceptual distance separating Europeans from Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• The secular map flattened sacred Muslim geography into profane coordinate space (similarity 0.81)
• Islam symbolized lasting trauma and danger, so its representation tamed it for Europe (similarity 0.80)
• Media reattributed the Iranian situation to timeless Muslim traits rather than real causes (similarity 0.80)
• Televised Tehran hostage images brought the conceptual threat of Islam into Western homes (similarity 0.79)
• Media bias against Muslims remains as prevalent today as in 1997 (similarity 0.79)
• Proximity converted a remote global Muslim threat into a domestic one (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Islamophobia is powered by the overlap of Muslims being both inside and outside #corroborates (0.88)
• Muslim visibility in Europe paradoxically increases perceived non-integration #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 708
• Circulating veiled-woman imagery deadens Westerners’ sense of Muslim women’s diversity #expands (0.82) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 394
• Using Muslims as hypothetical archetypes reinscribed their liminality in public imagination #expands (0.80)
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #expands (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Preconceptions about Muslims filter out information that contradicts them #expands (0.78)
• Orientalism sustains the credibility of preexisting Muslim monster images #expands (0.76)
• Media framing shapes American attitudes toward Islam and jihad #expands (0.75) — Asena Karipek, Portrayals of Jihad, 75
• Television uses token complexity to mask ongoing Muslim stereotyping #expands (0.74) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 529