Muslims and the News Media - Softcover

John E. Richardson; Elizabeth Poole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845111729 ISBN 13: 9781845111724

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2006

Synopsis

Muslims have featured in many of the more significant news stories of the past few years - yet shockingly very few of these stories have been about anything other than the 'war on terror'. This urgently relevant book examines the role and representations of Muslims in the news media, particularly within a climate of threat, fear and misunderstanding. Written by both academic authorities and media practitioners, "Muslims and the News Media" is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international context. Bringing together a range of insightful perspectives on the subject into a coherent whole, the book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and audiences, thus reflecting the entire cycle of the communication process. It reveals both the ways in which meaning is produced and reproduced in the news media, and the ways in which audiences themselves, both Muslim and non-Muslim, use or consume this media. Significant too and discussed here is the role of Muslims themselves in the processes of news production. Clarifying the circumstances and politics surrounding the representation of Muslims across a range of journalistic genres, "Muslims and the News Media" provides crucial insights into the representation - and misrepresentation - of Islam and Muslims today.

About this title

Review:

""Timely and comprehensive, this book covers all aspects of representation of Muslims in contemporary Western media. Impressively, it also attempts to answer fundamental questions about a multicultural Europe. In order to understand the nature of coverage in an era of interactive media one must scrutinise not only media content, but also its creators and consumers."" --Daphna Baram, author of Disenchantment: the Guardian and Israel

""Provides a much-needed, authoritative and wide-ranging set of interventions both documenting and challenging the democratic deficits, as well as analyzing new democratizing possibilities, that characterize today's news media."" -- Simon Cottle, University of Melbourne

About the Author:

Elizabeth Poole is Lecturer in Media Studies at Staffordshire University and author of 'Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims (I.B. Tauris). John E. Richardson is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Loughborough and author of '(Mis) Representing Islam: the Racism and Rhetoric of British Broadsheet Newspapers'.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845111729
• ISBN 13: 9781845111724
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: John E. Richardson, Elizabeth Poole