1st Edition

Islam and the Media Volume II

Edited By Anna Piela Copyright 2016
386 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

386 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection aims to illustrate the variety of different Islamic mediated expressions, both in Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts. The study of the myriad of ways in which Islam is mediated in today’s world is important, because the media (both traditional, i.e print and broadcast, and ‘new’/social/online) are a battleground for the meaning and nature of Islam. Different discourses... Read more
Volume II Representations of Islam and Muslims in Mainstream Media: 18 Media capital and the representation of South Asian Muslims in the British press: an ideological analysis 19 Covering Muslim women: semantic macrostructures in BBC News 20 Media (mis)representations: Muslim women in the Canadian nation 21 The women of Islam: the role of journalistic photography in the (re)production of character-type 22 Chadors, feminists, terror: the racial politics of U.S. media representations of the 1979 Iranian women’s movement 23 Muslim diaspora in Western Europe: the Islamic headscarf (hijab), the media and Muslims’ integration in France 24 Between impartiality and ideology: the BBC’s paradoxical remit and the case of Islam-related television news 25 Islam, media and minorities in Denmark 26 Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian media, 2001–2005 27 Veiled bodies – naked racism: culture, politics and race in the Sun 28 Muslim women and the veil: problems of image and voice in media representations 29 Beyond “angry Muslims”? Reporting Muslim voices in the British press 30 British Muslims in the broadsheet press: a challenge to cultural hegemony? 31 Chimera veil of “Iranian woman” and processes of U.S. textual commodification: how U.S. print media represent Iran 32 Media, racism and Islamophobia: the representation of Islam and Muslims in the media 33 Islam and the West 34 Digital Arabs: representation in video games 35 Unveiling imperialism: media, gender and the war on Afghanistan.

Biography

Anna Piela