Islam, Security and Television News

Flood, Christopher; Hutchings, Stephen; Miazhevich, Galina; Nickels, Henri C.

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“…The increase of studies on media and Islam after 9/11 and 7/7 is unsurprising, especially in the UK (among the most recent studies: Alsultany 2012 ; Flood et al 2012 ;Hutchings et al 2011 ;Karim 2011 ;Morey and Yaqin 2011 ). Islam has become such a central theme in the representations of immigration that, to some extent and mostly in Northern Europe, one could say -as Roggeband and Vliegenthart ( 2007 ) have with regard to the Netherlands -that immigration is now represented through the frame of Islam.…”

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News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

Pogliano

2016

IMISCOE Research Series

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News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

Pogliano

2016

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Such conflict can be understood to be congenital to the Corporation's pluralistic broadcasting remit (e.g., Schlesinger, 1978;Schlessinger et al, 1983;Viera, 1988;Flood et al, 2011;Flood et al, 2012). As the nation's foremost public service institution, the BBC is required to report on terrorism-related incidents in an independent and objective manner; providing its audiences with sufficient information for them to make democratic, critically-informed decisions about the nature of the threat and how best to deal with it (BBC Online, 2015).…”

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A shifting enemy: analysing the BBC’s representations of “al-Qaeda” in the aftermath of the September 11^th2001 attacks

Ahmad

2016

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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This article seeks to explore how the BBC made sense of the al-Qaeda phenomenon in its flagship "News at Ten" bulletin during the aftermath of the September 11 th 2001 attacks. Using Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis, it shows how the BBC's representations function as a dynamic and continually shifting site upon which a range of fears, identities, discourses and forms of knowledge and power struggle and contend, and through which a number of different "al-Qaedas" manifest themselves. In particular, three shifting modes of visual and verbal representation are identified within the BBC's coverage which each correspond to a separate understanding of al-Qaeda: the "Islamic" mode, the "Personalised" mode and the "Elusive" mode. These representations both draw upon and challenge the dominant discourses surrounding Islam, non-state terrorism, and the identities of terrorist suspects, providing audiences with a variety of, often conflicting, ways of seeing and speaking about this entity. As such, the article provides insight into the complex nature of the BBC's representations of al-Qaeda during its coverage of the September 11th 2001 attacks, and shows how such complexity serves, albeit inadvertently, to legitimise the far-reaching counterterrorism policies that were enacted in the aftermath of these attacks.

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“…For an analysis of the tension at the heart of those values, see Chris Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich and Henri Nickels, 'Between Impartiality and Ideology: The BBC's Paradoxical Remit and the Case of Islam-related Television News ', Journalism Studies, 12/2, 2011, 221-38. Chris Flood, Stephen Hutchings, Galina Miazhevich andHenri Nickels, Islam, Security andTelevision News, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 144-6 and Putin's Russia,…”

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television. Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

Laine

2016

Europe-Asia Studies

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Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalization and associated international trends are disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television's role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies.Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralized government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethno-nationalism in Russia, which harks back to 'old-fashioned' values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain.Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia's recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

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Islam, Security and Television News

Cited by 16 publications

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News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

A shifting enemy: analysing the BBC’s representations of “al-Qaeda” in the aftermath of the September 11^th2001 attacks

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television. Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

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News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

News Media and Immigration in the EU: Where and How the Local Dimension Matters

A shifting enemy: analysing the BBC’s representations of “al-Qaeda” in the aftermath of the September 11th2001 attacks

Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television. Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

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