Muslims and the News Media - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845111710 ISBN 13: 9781845111717

Publisher: I.B.Tauris, 2006

Synopsis

Set in both British and international contexts, this text is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook which clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and audiences. Looking closely at a wide range of journalistic genres the authors examine the influence of Muslims in the processes of news production, and the ways in which audiences, both Muslim and non-Muslim, consume this media. The book brings together different perspectives to provide insights into the representation--and misrepresentation--of Islam and Muslims today.

About this title

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 Journalism at Sheffield University and author of (Mis)Representing Islam: the Racism and Rhetoric of the British Press.

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 this edition

• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1845111710
• ISBN 13: 9781845111717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Poole Elizabeth, Richardson John E.