Transnational Television Audiences after September 11
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 32; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13691830600761511
ISSN1469-9451
Autores Tópico(s)Populism, Right-Wing Movements
ResumoAbstract This article introduces and sets out the theoretical and methodological framework of a collaborative research project into news-viewing in multilingual families and households in the UK on and after 11 September 2001 upon which the articles in this special issue are based. Viewing the attacks of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath on television triggered deep emotional responses in viewers. Many people experienced a sense of trauma; these events forced viewers to think about the unthinkable—violent and painful death at the hands of terrorists—and the consequences of enduring political conflict over issues of security and terrorism. In thinking through the causes, meanings and consequences of these events, viewers offered accounts of other 'ground zeros'. They compared and contrasted coverage on a range of channels such as BBC, Al-Jazeera and CNN, and actively sought alternative news sources because of perceived bias in Western reporting. The research examines the extent to which different patterns of news consumption reinforce or relativise understandings of terrorism and political violence. Keywords: TransnationalismTerrorismSatellite Television NewsMultilingual AudiencesIdentityFreedom of Speech Acknowledgments Many thanks to the dedicated team of 20 researchers who devoted much more time and energy to this research than was originally envisaged. Without them the depth and range of findings could never have been achieved. The researchers were: Matt Adams, Fauzia Ahmad, Ammar Terence Al-Ghabban, Asu Aksoy, Nora Armani, Shakuntala Banaji, Ehab Bessaiso, Andrew Bateman, Penny Burke, Stephan Drury, Nisa Finney, Zahera Harb, Choman Hardi, Dina Matar, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Noureddine Miladi, Sayed Mousavi, Gabrielle Shenar, Ugur Tekin, Erol Yildiz. I would like to thank Tom Cheesman for his enduring intellectual and practical support and for helping me to copy-edit this set of papers. I would also like to thank Ben O'Loughlin for helping me bring this issue to completion. Further thanks are due to Professors James Gow, David Herbert and Kevin Williams, who commented on earlier drafts of the papers. Finally many thanks to Russell King and Jenny Money in the JEMS editorial office for their patience and support. Notes 1. http//www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/ 2. http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/wwwroot/cheesman.htm 3. http://www.afterseptember11.tv; see also a French translation of the full study (and other research) in Lits (2004 Lits , M . (ed.) (2004) Du 11 Septembre à la Riposte: les débuts d'une nouvelle guerre médiatique . Brussels : de boeck . [Google Scholar]: 61–103). The project was jointly funded by the ESRC Transnational Communities research programme (award no. L214252030), the Open University's National Everyday Cultures Programme, the British Film Institute, the Broadcasting Standards Commission and the Independent Television Commission. 4. See, for example, http://virtuallyislamic.blogspot.com/ 5. This left a number of gaps: two case studies on white working- and middle-class families; an extensive set of interviewees with British Kurds and Kurdish refugees; a cross-ethnic study of asylum-seekers. Moreover, co-ordinating this study with a normal university teaching load was not easy. Several of the researchers were young, post-graduate or post-doctoral researchers who could have done with more support than I was able to offer. 6. The research was published in report form by the Broadcasting Standards Commission (now OFCOM) and was used as a basis of discussion at the BBC and Independent Television Commission (cf. http://www.bsc.org.uk/index1024.htm for research working papers or http://www.afterseptember11.tv for report). The full study included content analysis of different language news bulletins. That part of the research was co-ordinated by Professor Richard Patterson at the British Film Institute. See also Lits (2004 Lits , M . (ed.) (2004) Du 11 Septembre à la Riposte: les débuts d'une nouvelle guerre médiatique . Brussels : de boeck . [Google Scholar]). This work continues in a further ESRC-funded project, details of which can be found at www.mediatingsecurity.com or at http://www.newsecurity.bham.ac.uk/ Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarie GillespieMarie Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. She was principal investigator of the research on which this special issue is based
Referência(s)