The War on Terror through Arab-American Eyes: The Arab-American Press as a Rhetorical Counterpublic

Kaufer, David S.; Almalki, Amal

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“…The workings of such counter-publics have been widely studied. Kaufer and Al-Malki (2009), for instance, characterized the Arab-American press as a post-9/11 counter-public that emerged to contest the anti-Arab discourse propagated by the Bush administration. Similarly, analyzing Hong Kong's recent political protests, Leung and Lee (2014) demonstrated the role of alternative media in the formation of an active online counter-public.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hindu-Nationalism and Media: Anti-Press Sentiments by Right-Wing Media in India

Bhat

2023

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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This monograph investigates the expression of anti-media populist sentiments by right-wing news media in India and the socio-technological, historical, economic, legal, and political factors that aid right-wing efforts to delegitimize professional journalism. Thematic analysis of 545 articles from Swarajya.com and OpIndia.com, a qualitative content analysis of Republic TV debates, and interviews with 24 Hindu nationalists on Twitter reveal the discursive strategies they use to discredit journalism. Themes in media criticism include claims that the mainstream media are corrupt and partisan, suppress Hindu voices, favor Muslim and Christian minorities, undermine national interests, and spread false narratives. These expressions aim to undermine journalists’ credibility and position right-wing actors as challengers to the established media’s hegemony. Meanwhile, the Modi government employs coercive measures to co-opt the media into providing favorable coverage to the BJP. These endeavors cause journalists to self-censor to safeguard personal safety and livelihood. Consequently, mainstream news content is increasingly homogeneous, eroding diverse perspectives. This shift weakens the media’s watchdog role and shrinks the space for open debate and public deliberation in India.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hindu-Nationalism and Media: Anti-Press Sentiments by Right-Wing Media in India

Bhat

2023

Journalism & Communication Monographs

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“…Their studies pave the way for shifting the attention from textual television and film critique to that of active audiences who construct their everyday lives and identities in opposition and negotiation with media artifacts. For this purpose, a qualitative, in-depth interview approach was employed in order to understand the relationship between shifting borders of media and text, and of audience and actors, during a political climate that silences them and presumably other marginalized populations in the United States (Kaufer and Al-Malki, 2009). On the side, this study addresses what conversations around media, terror, and Islam might be like for sojourners and migrants who are not fully adept or acculturated in the rules of sociality of their adoptive country.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Personal experiences are missing or silenced in the vast accounts of transnational exchange and travel, between the Middle-East and the U.S., especially during this politically potent time (Kaufer and Al-Malki, 2009). Travelers, like domestic audiences, are consumers of media fare from around the ii world.…”

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Global Muslim audiences polysemic reading of My name is Khan: Toward an emergent multiculturalism

Kapoor¹

2018

J. Media Commun. Stud.

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In this study, we learn how audiences make sense of a non-dominant text that is conveying a non-Western story about the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The audiences affective narratives affirm Deuze's argument that media is not separate from our lived experience; we live in media rather than with media. This study was conducted on an urban campus in the Pacific NorthWest , with film audiences of over fifty Saudi Arabian, Baharanian, Iranian, Iraqi, Yemeni, and other Arab and non-Arab Muslims. Multiple screenings of Hindi language film, My Name is Khan, shows that it speaks to a global, transcultural, primarily Muslim audience that has lived in the pall of a world changed by 9/11. As audiences, they weave an oppositional narrative of security, multiculturalism and Muslim identity. While their visas define them as students, their experience as simply Arab or Muslim women and men situates them, in a wider articulation of their transnational identity.

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“…Malinovich (2006) was also aware that IH did not represent a cross-section of American-Muslim society, noting that '[t]his article focuses on Muslims of immigrant origins rather than black Muslims' (p. 111). Kaufer and Al-Malki (2009) analyzed the Dearborn-based Arab American News as a 'counterpublic' to the mainstream American media's discourse on Arabs and Muslims. Their rhetorical analysis of 113 'terrorism stories' before and after 9/11 found that the newspaper 'nurtured a hybrid identity that combined patriotism for America with loyalty to Arabs of the diaspora and back in the Middle East' (Kaufer and Al-Malki, 2009: 61).…”

Section: The American-muslim Pressmentioning

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Unveiling the American-Muslim press: News agendas, frames, and functions

Shahin

2014

Journalism

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The growing scholarly literature on Muslims and the media in the United States has paid little attention to the American-Muslim press. This study compares the coverage of two major American-Muslim publications, the bimonthly news magazine Islamic Horizons and the weekly tabloid Muslim Journal, at four key moments beginning with 9/11. Content analysis (N = 576) indicates both publications are overwhelmingly UScentric, focusing on domestic political and community affairs rather than the so-called 'Muslim world'. Aiding Muslim assimilation into American society emerges as the most important function of the American-Muslim press. However, Muslim Journal attends almost exclusively to black Muslims while Islamic Horizons emphasizes the coverage of immigrant Muslims from the Middle East and South Asia -reflecting and reproducing a historical schism within American-Muslim society. The study also reveals how minority media can reinforce power structures within the minority community and thus serve as a means of social control.

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The War on Terror through Arab-American Eyes: The Arab-American Press as a Rhetorical Counterpublic

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Hindu-Nationalism and Media: Anti-Press Sentiments by Right-Wing Media in India

Hindu-Nationalism and Media: Anti-Press Sentiments by Right-Wing Media in India

Global Muslim audiences polysemic reading of My name is Khan: Toward an emergent multiculturalism

Unveiling the American-Muslim press: News agendas, frames, and functions

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