This study focuses on the three “big” French dailies: Le Monde, Le Figaro and Libération.
Identifying the appearance of the terms “Islam” and “Muslim” in a relatively recent period (1997-2015), the study methods provide an innovative and particularly revealing view of the issue of the media’s treatment of Islam.
Through its quantitative and qualitative approaches, this study therefore allows us to observe the events around which the terms arise, to analyse the framework and the orientation of the debates that raise them and, finally, to take an overall evolving view of this media treatment.
