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'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack (2024)
Journal Article

This article intervenes in debates about whether public-facing social media enable the rapid spread of hate speech, or whether these platforms can offer valuable opportunities to contest it. Advancing scholarship on ‘networked counter-publics’ and re... Read More about 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack.

Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

This article advances research on mediated solidarity, by analyzing the contestation of Islamophobia on the social media platform Twitter, in the context of Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a unique longit... Read More about Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Disrupting or reconfiguring racist narratives about Muslims? The representation of British Muslims during the Covid crisis (2021)
Journal Article

This article examines British newspaper coverage of Muslims during the first wave of the Coronavirus crisis. A well-established trajectory of research shows that Muslims are negativized in mainstream media representation in the UK. However, it became... Read More about Disrupting or reconfiguring racist narratives about Muslims? The representation of British Muslims during the Covid crisis.

Covering Diversity (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to describe the representation of ethnic minority groups in contemporary Western news media, outline important concepts and theories for understanding these representations, introduce key thinkers and research that has analyzed the... Read More about Covering Diversity.

Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives Special Collection (2019)
Journal Article

This is an introduction to the Open Library of Humanities Special Collection ‘Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives’. It provides an overview of key issues and debates in discussions of social media acti... Read More about Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives Special Collection.

Constructing ‘British values’ within a Radicalisation Narrative: The Reporting of the Trojan Horse Affair (2018)
Journal Article

This article examines the reporting of the “Operation Trojan Horse” affair in two British newspapers, the Daily Mail and The Guardian, in 2014. I argue that this high-profile case was a vehicle for the Conservative-led Government, and parts of the Un... Read More about Constructing ‘British values’ within a Radicalisation Narrative: The Reporting of the Trojan Horse Affair.

‘Muslim Media’ and the Politics of Representation: Media and Cultural Responses to Diversity Issues in Britain (2014)
Journal Article

This article examines data from a year-long project, ‘Muslims in the European Mediascape’, which explored the production and consumption of diversity issues in the United Kingdom and Germany. Here, I report on the findings from minority (predominantl... Read More about ‘Muslim Media’ and the Politics of Representation: Media and Cultural Responses to Diversity Issues in Britain.