‘You can't have the struggle without the ugly fringe’ - Publicness in Australian National Imagination: Media representations of the Muslim demonstrations in Sydney in 2012’

Patil, Tejaswini

doi:10.1080/10304312.2014.964179

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“…Numerous scholars across disciplines have investigated media representation of Muslims and Islam through various lenses of analytical inquiry and across varying geo-political contexts, which include: North America (Ibrahim, 2010;Kumar, 2010;Said, 1978Said, , 1980Shaheen, 2009), Europe (Ehrkamp, 2010;Poole, 2002), Asia (Ahmed, 2010(Ahmed, , 2012Green, 2013), Latin America (Ahlin and Carler, 2011) and Oceanian countries (Ewart, 2012;Kabir, 2010Kabir, , 2011Patil, 2015). Despite the vast scholarship, we are still lacking a systematic analysis of literature providing us with a detailed understanding of overall findings and trends.…”

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Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A meta-analysis

Ahmed

Matthes

2016

International Communication Gazette

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This article reports a meta-analysis of 345 published studies to examine the media’s role in construction of a Muslim and Islamic identity. A quantitative analysis highlights the geographical focus, methods, theories, authorship, media types, and time frames of published studies. A qualitative analysis investigated the most prominent researched themes. Our findings suggest that a large majority of studies covered Western countries, while Muslim countries and Muslim media have been neglected. We also identified an evident lack of comparative research, a neglect of visuals, and a dearth of research on online media. We found that most studies investigated the themes of ‘migration’, ‘terrorism’, and ‘war’. Moreover, our meta-study shows that Muslims tend to be negatively framed, while Islam is dominantly portrayed as a violent religion. Implications of these findings are discussed.

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Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A meta-analysis

Ahmed

Matthes

2016

International Communication Gazette

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“…This implicated children as 'illegal', 'prone to suicide', 'criminal' and undeserving of Australian empathy. Such a view has been previously confirmed in numerous studies (Patil 2014;Patil and Ennis 2016;Macken-Horarik 2003), including Klocker and Dunn (2003) who note that the crisis narratives in the headlines referring to asylum seeker children and their families has been influential in shifting media representations of boat children from 'threat' to 'burden'. Moreover, the news reports employed this binary logic to resolve ambivalence between deserving of humanitarian compassion as opposed to undeserving boat people, positioning the latter as problematic to sovereignty and a threat to core western values (Pickering 2001;Gale 2004a), therefore deviant.…”

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“…Such articles blend evaluative propositions with fact-based beliefs and thereby provide explanatory frameworks in which the representation of asylum-seeker parents and their children are more likely believed. Finally, the letters to the editor, which assume a discursive function of speaking on behalf of others, offer indications of the formation of social solidarity in public discourse (Patil 2014;Wahl-Jorgensen 2001;Schultz 2000). identified 238 unique articles that included news reports, feature stories, editorials, and letters to the editor and opinion pieces.…”

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Manipulative silences and the politics of representation ofboat childrenin Australian print media

McLaren

Patil

2016

Continuum

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Manipulative silences and the politics of representation of boat children in Australian print media There is substantial literature on media representations of asylum seeker policy in Australia from a number of theoretical standpoints, namely moral panic theory, whiteness studies and belonging and citizenship. While many of these studies use discourse analysis of textual media as a methodology there is scant attention to the contribution of textual silences in media representations of asylum seeker children. Using Huckin's (2002) idea of manipulative silences, we demonstrate how media representations may steer public attention towards asylum seeker children in two dominant ways: (i) in discourses of deviancy by association with adults and (ii) the rights of boat children in association with immigration detention. Both generate confusion between rights, compassion and deviancy and, by shifting public attention, they serve to silence more essential concerns for the children. We seek to analyses these manipulative silences in the context of Australian asylum seeker policies of the Abbott government. In elucidating the use of textual silences to manipulate discourse, it is possible to see how Australian media representations may be skewing dialogue in the public sphere away from core political, legal and humanitarian issues that are imperative for the wellbeing of asylum seeker children.

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“…This seminal article has received a lot of attention since its publication in the Wall Street Journal in 2005 due to its polemical nature and Wahid's position as an international Moslem scholar and a global defender of pluralism (Masduqi, 2019;Masduqi, Subiyanto, & Chotib, 2022). Furthermore, numerous scholars across disciplines have investigated mass media representation of Muslims and Islam through various lenses of analytical inquiry and across varying geo-political contexts, which include: North America (Ibrahim, 2010;Kumar, 2010;Said, 1980;Shaheen, 2009), Europe (Ehrkamp, 2010;Poole, 2002), Latin America (Ahlin and Carler, 2011), Oceanian countries (Ewart, 2012;Kabir, N, 2011;Kabir, S, 2010;Patil, 2015), Asia (Ahmed, 2010(Ahmed, , 2012Green, 2013), and Indonesia (Gathmyr et al, 2018;Irawan, 2017;Santoso, Abdullah, Sjuhro, & Maryani, 2019). Although there has been a considerable body of research, a methodical analysis of literature that gives us a more detailed, objective understanding of mass media portrayals of Islam and Muslims is still lacking and therefore, needs to be conducted.…”

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Media Representations of Islam and Muslims in Indonesia: A Review and Research Direction

Masduqi,

Subiyanto

2023

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Current political issues related to power struggles in Indonesia are playing a divisive role in the country and escalating religious cases are a common sight. With Muslims dominating the nation's population, Islam inevitably plays a pivotal role in the country's political pageant. Indonesian government claim that they manage to secure moderate Muslims' loyalty to the political system while groups that are labelled as 'intolerant and radical Muslims' by the mainstream media often reject the mainstream democratic interpretations. In light of this situation, it is imperative that studies on factors contributing to the case and discourse strategies used in news and articles in secular and Islamic mass media dictating the current constructions of Muslim and Islamic identities in the country be encouraged.

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‘You can't have the struggle without the ugly fringe’ - Publicness in Australian National Imagination: Media representations of the Muslim demonstrations in Sydney in 2012’

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A meta-analysis

Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A meta-analysis

Manipulative silences and the politics of representation ofboat childrenin Australian print media

Media Representations of Islam and Muslims in Indonesia: A Review and Research Direction

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