Médiatisation de l’islamophobie sur les réseaux socionumériques chinois : les enjeux ambigus de l’État face au militantisme anti-Islam

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the political stakes of media coverage in the relationship between the Chinese state and anti-Islam activism. A corpus of more than 210,000 media and user data (posts, reposts, comments, etc.) has been built from Weibo based on two events: the Kunming train station attack in China in 2014 and the Paris attacks in 2015. This work identifies, through an analysis of media content and users, the main composition of anti-Islam activism, the state's strategy of ambiguity to this activism and a less censored space of debate constructed communicatively in the process of mediatization of Islamophobia.