Social media reproduces rather than disrupts established anti-Muslim media frames

Evidence

Facebook is being used to mainstream Islamophobia, according to Oboler’s (2016) investigation. Following a qualitative examination of 349 Facebook postings, Oboler (2016) discovered a number of themes that portray Muslims as cunning, deceitful, and a danger to both Western civilization and security. Thus, it was discovered that the Internet reinforces the discourses that already present in traditional media. — Muhammad Asad Latif, The Identity of Religion Always Comes Up, 35

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: social platforms as accelerants of old media frames, not new counterpublics — testable against later data on algorithmic amplification.
• XREF: connects to: Media imagery drives public bias against Muslims and Arabs — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 74