Research Paper
Year: 2022 | Month: November | Volume: 9 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 157-167
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20221123
The Role of the Media in Combating the Phenomenon of Terrorism and Extremism: Empirical Study
Bayan Al-Qudah
University of Manouba UMA/ Institute of Journalism and News Sciences, Tunisia.
ABSTRACT
The study aimed to identify the role of the media in fighting the phenomenon of terrorism and extremism, through enlightening Arab public opinion that the terrorism aims at terrorizing and shedding the blood of innocent people and the destruction of vital establishments, and creating a general opinion against hyperbole and extremism in their different forms. The study also aimed to achieve the unity of the Arab media work and integration in the field of combating terrorism and extremism, and finally to detect whether there is a statistically significant differences with respect to the views of respondents about the role of the media in fighting against the phenomenon of terrorism and extremism due to the variable of academic rank. The descriptive analytical method was used in this study, where the researcher monitored the role of the media in fighting against the phenomenon of terrorism and extremism, from the viewpoint of the faculty members in some Jordanian universities. The study sample was a deliberate-composed sample of (25) faculty members. The study results concluded that there was no statistically significant differences between the responses of faculty members according to the variable of academic rank towards the role of the media in fighting against the phenomenon of terrorism and extremism, and this can be attributed to the one true Islamic intellectual vision from which all faculty members head on in their quest to discard all kinds of violence, extremism and terrorism, as well as their rejection of all forms of killing and destruction that will bring ruin and destruction of communities.
Keywords: Media - terrorism - extremism
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