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Elizabeth Poole's Outputs (26)

Religion in the British Media Today (2012)
Book Chapter
Taira, T., Poole, E., & Knott, K. (2012). Religion in the British Media Today. In Religion and the News. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604855-4

How is religion represented in British media today? In this chapter, Taira, Poole and Knott provide a detailed answer, based on their research into television and newspaper reporting of religion in 2008–10. As well as surveying references to conventi... Read More about Religion in the British Media Today.

American Coverage of Immigration, Islam, and Identity in the UK and the Netherlands (2012)
Book Chapter
Poole, E. (2012). American Coverage of Immigration, Islam, and Identity in the UK and the Netherlands. In Oxford Handbooks Online (453-468). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195395068.013.0030

This article explores how American journalists cover religion in Europe, where issues of faith and church-state relations lead to differing interpretations of religio-ethnic news events, by analyzing U.S. newspaper coverage of the anti-Islamic Dutch... Read More about American Coverage of Immigration, Islam, and Identity in the UK and the Netherlands.

The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK (2012)
Journal Article
Poole. (2012). The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK. Journal of Religion in Europe, 162 - 191. https://doi.org/10.1163/187489212X639181

This article aims to show how in the current political climate in the UK debates about multiculturalism, religion, and identity, in relation to Muslims, have played out in the public sphere through an examination of British news media coverage of the... Read More about The case of Geert Wilders: Multiculturalism, Islam, and Identity in the UK.

Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context (2011)
Journal Article
Poole. (2011). Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context. Global Media Journal, 49 - 62

9/11 is often marked out as a significant event in the current political and
historical context in that it signalled a discernable shift to a new politics
categorised in specific “Western” countries by the “war on terror”. Through an
examination o... Read More about Change and Continuity in the Representation of British Muslims Before and After 9/11: The UK Context.

Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7 (2010)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M., Poole, E., & Holohan, S. (2010). Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6(2), 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1386/mcp.6.2.169_1

It is widely agreed that the events which took place on 11 September 2001 have played a large part in reshaping global imaginings about contemporary acts of terrorism and their Islamic perpetrators. Given this transformation in the understanding of t... Read More about Discourses of the War on Terror: Constructions of the Islamic Other in the wake of 7/7.