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Overview
Since the end of the Cold War, much media attention has focused on Islam as a disruption in the global order. Reporting Islam is a timely look at the ways in which Muslims are represented in British news media. Elizabeth Poole examines newspapers and actual accounts from readers, to explore how Muslims are demonized by the press.Author Biography: Elizabeth Poole is a Lecturer in Media Studies at Staffordshire University.
Synopsis
Poole (media studies, Staffordshire U., UK) explores the way Muslims are represented in the British national press. She presents the results of a content analysis study of two broadsheet newspapers over the period 1994-96 and argues that coverage of British Islam was more detailed that that of global Islam, incorporating discourses of minority representation in Britain. In terms of global Islam, she finds that newspapers continue a discourse of "orientalism," as formulated by Edward Said. Although the work was finished before September 2001, a preface has been added that attempts to analyze a week's worth of coverage following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR