ISBN:
9781845111717
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (256 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Muslims and the News Media
DDC:
302.230882971
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This urgently relevant book examines both the role and representations of Muslims in the news media, particularly within a climate of threat, fear and misunderstanding. Written by both leading academic authorities and by Muslim media practitioners, "Muslims and the Media" is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international contexts. The book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and audiences thus reflecting the entire cycle of the communication process and revealing the ways in which meaning is produced a
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Introduction Elizabeth Poole and John E. Richardson; Part 1. Context, Politics and Production; 1 New Labour, Multiculturalism and the Media in Britain; 2 Anti-Arab Prejudice in the UK: the 'Kilroy-Silk Affair' and the BBC Response; 3 Racial Profiling and the War on Terror; 4 Propaganda and the 'Terror Threat' in the UK; 5 Still no Redress from the PCC; 6 Mixed Communities: Mixed Newsrooms; 7 Islamic Features in British and French Muslim Media; Part 2. Media Output; 8 The Effects of September 11 and the War in Iraq on British Newspaper Coverage
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Who Gets to Speak? A Study of Sources in the Broadsheet Press10 American Media's Coverage of Muslims: the Historical Roots of Contemporary Portrayals; 11 Australians Imagining Islam; 12 Joined Forces: the IDF and the Israeli Press Reporting of the Intifada; 13 Towards an Islamic Information Revolution?; Part 3. Audience Practices; 14 The Media Consumption of Young British Muslims; 15 Arab Public Opinion in the Age of Satellite Television: the Case of al-Jazeera; 16 Framing the Other: Worldview, Rhetoric and Media Dissonance since 9/11
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Bad News and Public Debate about the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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