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Assertions of identities through news productionNews-making among teenage Muslim girls in London and New YorkInstitute of Education, habiba.noor{at}yahoo.com 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.
Key Words: audience research • imagined audience • Muslim identity • news • participatory methods • war in Iraq • War on Terror • youth
European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3,
374-388 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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