SOC355H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Press Release, September 11 Attacks
Document Summary
Bail (2012) developed an evolutionary framework that located messages of individual organizations into broader, more general fields, more specifically how cultural changes are incited following major historical events such as 9/11 attacks. He finds that the media plays a large role in the fringe effect during unsettling periods. The fringe effect refers to broad organizational frameworks that established their abilities to influence media while challenging mainstream institutions. Fringe organizations were overrepresented in the media after 9/11 while there was an underrepresentation of mainstream organizations. Press release in media coverage was examined through the use of plagiarism detection software and the results showed that angry and fearful fringe organizations had significant influence over the media discourse with regards to muslims post 9/11 attacks. Anti-muslim discourses detected by fear and anger, consisted of the majority of mainstream media after the 9/11 attacks.
