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- Title
Permitted to Build? Moral Foundations in Newspaper Framing of Mosque- Construction Controversies.
- Authors
Bowe, Brian J.
- Abstract
Recent proposals by American Muslims to build mosques have been met with technical and ideological opposition during the permitting process. This article examines the framing of these debates in newspaper stories between 2010 and 2013 to better understand the socially constructed position Muslims hold in American media and public spheres. Connecting framing and Moral Foundations Theory, this analysis identifies five frames: Local Regulation, Political Debate, Muslim Neighbors, Islamic Threat, and Legal Authority. These frames emphasized binding moral foundations related to in-group protection and deference to authority. A binary logistic regression found that moral evaluations were associated with mosque support, but not mosque opposition.
- Subjects
MOSQUES; FRAMES (Social sciences); MORAL foundations theory; DEBATE in mass media; MUSLIMS; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); PUBLIC opinion
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2018, Vol 95, Issue 3, p782
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077699017709253