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Assertions of identities through news production: News-making among teenagwe Muslim girls in London and New York
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Abstract British Muslim frustration with the media is well researched and documented; their main concern is how news discourses on Islam influence opinions of majority audiences. This article argues that production-based audience research methods give insight into how minority audiences see themselves in rel... view more
British Muslim frustration with the media is well researched and documented; their main concern is how news discourses on Islam influence opinions of majority audiences. This article argues that production-based audience research methods give insight into how minority audiences see themselves in relation to the majority and how groups negotiate a sense of belonging through media discourses. The study used a technique whereby Muslim teenagers in London and New York were asked to produce a two-minute news story on the 'War on Terror' that combined images from a digital archive with an accompanying voiceover. The article analyses how the participants position themselves as representatives of a global Muslim community-in-suffering to imagined mainstream audiences in the UK and US.... view less
Classification
Social Psychology
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Free Keywords
audience research; imagined audience; Muslim identity; news; participatory methods; war in Iraq; War on Terror; youth;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 374-388
Journal
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10 (2007) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549407079710
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)