Richard Flanagan's novel The Unknown Terrorist is concerned with the utility of just such news media frames and also how they are open to manipulation and extension. Their ubiquity and dissemination in a globalized media landscape testify to a practical concern for what certain types of story are worth in a market. In the case of Muslims and terror, this becomes, in effect, a market for Islamophobia. Yet news discourse is only one vehicle for this market; the others include popular-cultural forms such as film, television, and literature; the terrain of social media; the utterances of politicians; and so on.

SEED: Potential essay angle: how market dynamics — not just ideology — drive Islamophobic media frames across film, TV, literature, social media, and political speech.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 354