TY - JOUR
T1 - Ten Years after the Danish Muhammad Cartoon News Stories: Terror and Radicalization as Predictable Media Events
AU - Hervik, Peter
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - In the tenth year after Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons, the Muhammad Cartoons, this media event—and the hegemonic understanding behind it—continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies around national borders and racial boundaries. Then, since late 2010, radicalization as a “pre-terrorist” phase has become the lens through which the category “Muslims” has been represented in much media coverage. In this article, I argue that the dominant hegemonic understanding in Denmark that is based on a certain spatial–racial logic is not a passive production of knowledge. It keeps informing news coverage of media events as terror and thereby risking describing the hegemony more than adequately understanding the events at hand.
AB - In the tenth year after Danish daily Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons, the Muhammad Cartoons, this media event—and the hegemonic understanding behind it—continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies around national borders and racial boundaries. Then, since late 2010, radicalization as a “pre-terrorist” phase has become the lens through which the category “Muslims” has been represented in much media coverage. In this article, I argue that the dominant hegemonic understanding in Denmark that is based on a certain spatial–racial logic is not a passive production of knowledge. It keeps informing news coverage of media events as terror and thereby risking describing the hegemony more than adequately understanding the events at hand.
KW - News Media
KW - copenhagen shootings
KW - racialization
KW - radicalization
KW - Danish Muhammad Cartoon conflict
KW - terrorism
KW - hegemony
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1527476417707582
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040116153&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1527476417707582
DO - 10.1177/1527476417707582
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1527-4764
VL - 19
SP - 146
EP - 154
JO - Television & New Media
JF - Television & New Media
IS - 2
ER -