British Arab Muslim Audiences and Television after September 11

Harb, Zahera; Bessaiso, Ehab

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“…A similar phenomenon has been reported in the UK, France and Germany (Green & Kabir, 2007;Harb & Bessaiso, 2006;Mousavi, 2006;Poole, 2002;Richardson, 2006).…”

Section: ''Fear Of Small Numbers''supporting

confidence: 63%

“The Media Is One‐sided in Australia”

Kabir¹

2008

Journal of Children and Media

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“…A similar phenomenon has been reported in the UK, France and Germany (Green & Kabir, 2007;Harb & Bessaiso, 2006;Mousavi, 2006;Poole, 2002;Richardson, 2006).…”

Section: ''Fear Of Small Numbers''supporting

confidence: 63%

“The Media Is One‐sided in Australia”

Kabir¹

2008

Journal of Children and Media

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“…Also, a survey of 146 Arabs in London, supported with in-depth group interviews with a small number of Arab families, showed that news and religious programmes are the most favoured programmes in Arab satellite channels (Miladi 2006). Another study amongst a sample of Arabs in Wales showed that consuming political programmes was viewed as part of their culture and daily activities (Harb and Bessaiso 2006). Surveys were also commissioned by local authorities in Europe, such as the survey amongst a sample of Moroccans in London (Change Institute 2009a) which shows that the older generation rarely watches British TV or reads UK newspapers, while the younger generation depends mainly on mainstream British media for news and entertainment.…”

Section: Divided Loyaltiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Countering cultural hegemony: Audience research in the Arab world

Mellor

2013

Journal of Arab &Amp; Muslim Media Research

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Countering cultural hegemony: audience research in the arab world abstraCtThe article provides a critical review of Arab scholarship on audience studies, focusing on the themes and different traditions adopted by Arab scholars, such as positivism versus cultural studies. Drawing on several examples of audience studies in the Arab world, I argue that this type of research has been influenced by the call to document and counter western cultural hegemony. While the majority of these studies quantitatively measure media consumption in terms of time used on these media and type of programmes watched, the underpinning assumption is the need to counter the negative impact of imported cultural programmes on Arab audiences, particularly youth. I argue that Arab researchers here are situated as experts detached from the audiences, thereby positioning themselves in a knowledge hierarchy above the subjects of their research. The review shows the implied view of Arab audiences as passive receivers of information, and potential victims of the recent technological innovation of communication.

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“…They also avidly engaged with Arabic-speaking global satellite TV channels on daily basis, a finding resonating with existing research on Arab diasporas in Europe. 12 They spoke limited English and mingled primarily and almost exclusively with fellow diaspora members. We related to parents through tracing commonalities in our diasporic trajectories, an issue that children did not closely relate to.…”

Section: Mnemonic Diasporic Habitus Between Performance and Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Mis)trust, Access and the Poetics of Self-Reflexivity

Mansour¹,

Sabry²

2017

Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World

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This chapter reflects on ethnographic research conducted in London over a period of 28 days in February, September and December of 2013, involving family observations and four workshops with young children of Arab origin between the ages of seven and 12. The ethnographic research was part of a larger, interdependent three-year research project funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which examined pan-Arab programming for children through a holistic and relational approach to three strands: audiences, texts and the political economy of screen production and distribution for children. The audience strand of the research project entailed ethnographic research in the UK, Morocco and Lebanon. In all these localities our prime objective was to steer away from the well-rehearsed media audiences models and experiment with new methods that would allow us to make sense of the ways in which children live and communicate their media and culture worlds. In the case of the London children, we were especially interested in the ways in which British children of Arab origin intentionally perform being in the world by navigating through multiple forms of subjectification and cultural tastes. This, we argue below, drawing on Bourdieu's concept of 'habitus' 1 together with studies of the 'mnemonic imagination' whereby remembering is understood as creative practice, 2 results in a mnemonic diasporic habitus.

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British Arab Muslim Audiences and Television after September 11

Cited by 22 publications

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“The Media Is One‐sided in Australia”

“The Media Is One‐sided in Australia”

Countering cultural hegemony: Audience research in the Arab world

(Mis)trust, Access and the Poetics of Self-Reflexivity

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