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Abstract The mass media have an immense power in influencing how audience members perceive their world. This is especially true as the mass media have introduced places and people of the world that the viewing audience might never get to experience first-hand. The exclusivity of the mass media to introduce foreign people and foreign cultures to their viewers, allows the mass media to define people and their characteristics. The audience will likely be influenced into believing that by watching media content that they know the people shown and their true nature. Muslims and Arabs are essentially covered, discussed, apprehended either as oil suppliers or as potential terrorists. Very little of the detail, the human density, the passion of Arab-Muslim life has entered the awareness of even those whose profession it is to report on the Islamic world. So, the researcher seeks to examine and analyze image of Islam in foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitudes of a sample of Egyptian adolescents. Problem of the study The representations that are related to Muslims and Arabs are based on stereotypical and racist visuals that make them seem to have only negative characteristics. The characteristics shown as it relates to Muslims and Arabs show them as primitive, savage, barbaric, unquestioning dogmatic followers of their violent religion, and ultimately, violent. The pre-September 11th representations in the mass media show brown Arab Sheiks who ruled over the vast wastelands of desert in the Middle-East. This representation showed them as backwards in terms of having no modern cities, and having no modern technologies. The backwardness of the society shown in the media content related to showing the people who resided there as uncivilized, violent towards foreigners, and aggressive towards white women that they desired. The 671 Arab Sheik eventually evolved into the terroristic individual that was identified as being both Arab and Muslim. This terrorist individual unlike the Arab Sheik character was shown to be a threat to the U.S., its people, and its interests. So, the problem study is formulated in examining and analyzing image of Islam in foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitudes of a sample of Egyptian adolescents. Importance of the study - The scarcity of media studies dealt with Islam and Muslim issues in foreign electronic newspapers. - Identifying media role in shaping public opinion. Media may take news out of context and use deductive expressions to generalize the picture of certain group of people. - The study is close to reality as it deals with the image of Islam and Muslims in critical period of our history after the ascending of extremist groups to the power in some Muslim countries i.e. ISIS. - Exploring the increasing role of media in defaming Islam and Muslim image in the West. Goals of the study The study has a main goal as follows: - Identifying the image of Islam on the websites of foreign electronic newspapers and its relation the attitudes of some Egyptian adolescents through the following: - Exploring Islam and Muslim issues that are treated on the websites of foreign electronic newspapers. - Identifying journalism forms used in tackling Islam and Muslim issues on the study websites. -Shedding light on the journalism sources used in tackling Islam and Muslim issues on the study websites.Recognizing persuasion strategies used in tackling Islam and Muslim issues on the study websites. - Discovering goals of treatment in discussing Islam and Muslim issues on the study websites. - Identifying the usage of pictures and videos in tackling Islam and Muslim issues on the study websites. - Identifying Egyptian adolescents attitudes towards the image of Islam on the study websites. Study questions The study has a main question namely: What the image of Islam in Foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitudes of some Egyptian adolescents ? Here are some sub-questions as follows: (a) The analytical study questions: 1- What type of Islam issues are treated in the study of foreign electronic newspapers? 2- What are the journalism forms used in tackling Islam and Muslim issues? 3- What are the journalism sources used in treating Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? 4- What are the persuasion strategies used in discussing Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? 5- What are the treatment goals used in treating Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? 6- How do the study websites get benefits from the internet in pictures and videos usage? (b) The field study questions 1- Do Egyptian adolescents follow the foreign electronic newspapers? 2- Do Egyptian adolescents read Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? 3- What kinds of Islam and Muslim issues are attractive to Egyptian adolescents? 4- What are the information sources of Egyptian adolescents about Islam and Muslim issues and what is the rank of the study websites among such sources? 5- What are the opinions of Egyptian adolescents about the suitability for treating Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers and the real existence of such issues? 6- What are the attitudes of Egyptian adolescents about publishing Muslim issues and the attractive elements and journalism forms used in the foreign electronic newspapers? 7- What are the adolescents benefits from journalism coverage of Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? 8- What are the adolescents achieved attitudes after reading Islam and Muslim issues on the foreign electronic newspapers? Kind of the study Our study belongs to the descriptive studies which aim at classifying data and facts gathered from journalism content to obtain information and accurate data and to know the feedback of the study population. Methodology of the Study Our current study depends on the following methodology: 1-Media survey method The current study uses media survey methodology as it presents accurate scientific effort which helps us obtain data and information about the image of Islam on the foreign electronic newspapers and its relation to the attitude of some Egyptian adolescents. I will also use the two aspects of media survey methodology; namely, field and descriptive- analytical ones. Community of the study Study analytical community The study analytical community represents the websites of foreign electronic websites of the New York Times and The Independent due to the explorative study on adolescents to explore their preferred foreign electronic newspapers. I analyze the two websites for one year using the industrial week method from 1/1/ 2017 to 31/12/2017. - Study field community The study field community represents Egyptian adolescents who study English language in English departments at Egyptian universities. - The study chosen sample reaches 200 adolescents from the universities of Al Azhar, Ain Shams, Tanta, Alexandria. Tools of the study 1- Coding sheet The researcher designed a coding sheet to analyze the websites of the New York Times and the Independent. The researcher divided coding sheet to sub-categories include issues, journalism forms, journalism sources, strategies of persuasion, goals of treatment, and usage of pictures and videos. 2- Questionnaire The researcher designs a questionnaire in English language to collect data from Egyptian adolescents who study English language as they have curriculums require their reviewing foreign English websites. |