Islam and the Media: Volume II

by Anna Piela (Editor)

Overview

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 about Islam are vying for public attention, because to be in the spotlight means to be influential. From everyday accounts of religious experience, through reformist, conservative, and reactive narratives, it is possible to observe many claims to religious authority as well as different Islamic religious identities.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Islam and the Media is a crucial work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital resource.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138643390
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2016
Series:	Critical Concepts in Sociology
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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.