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<P>Dear All,</P>
<P>Should some social analysts be interested to probe further into the
current background behind the present crisis for the Danish society, they
may gainlfully get more insight into the role of the mass media in alienating
the nation into two 'blocks of culture/religion' discourse by going
through Rikke Andreassen's PhD- thesis, perhaps one
of the most recent "data-base" on news-media rhetoric on Muslims
and Islam in Denmark, covering both the public service and commercial media for
the last 30 years.</P>
<P>The gest of her thesis, as I understand, is that the way the Danish mass
media construct the social realties on the dimension of gender, race, nation or
sexual orientation are integrally related to a construction af
self-identity as a nation and people, the Danes and Denmark. Other social
scientists have called the tendency "Banale Nationalisme".</P>
<LI><B>The Mass Media's Construction of Gender, Race, Sexuality and
Nationality</B>. An Analysis of the Danish News Media's Communication about
Visible Minorities, Ph.d-Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2005.<BR></LI>
<P>Best Wishes,</P>
<P>Mustafa</P>
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