What’s in a Name

If we start with the notion that naming an entity already attributes specific characteristics to it, we can assume that calling someone or a group of people Muslim already triggers all the stereotypical ideas one has about the people of that religion. In addition, as the religious denominator itself is charged with multiple connotations, its mere mentioning triggers all these associations in all their possible variations. “What’s in a Name” views the positive and negative references used for Muslims and the associations these provoke and then compares the findings from the manually collected corpora of media articles to the results provided by online corpora.