NEWS
More than a year after the project officially closed, the team keeps being invited to talk about the outcomes of the research:
- Liesbet will give a keynote address to the Digital Crossroads conference in Utrecht (NL) on June 28, 2012.
- She will also talk to the Westminster Media and Communication studies staff and research students on November 2, 2011.
- On November 22 we will be present at a Religion and Society Program event in Manchester, Young, British and Muslim, http://www.shisha.net/news-and-views/news/young-british-and-muslim-academic-research-and-real-lives/
- Farida was at the meeting of the Religion and Society Award holders in November 2010
- Liesbet joined a panel of the International Association in Mass Communication Research in Istanbul in July 2011
- She also framed the results of the research in the context of ‘participating audiences’, in a working group of the EU Cost Action -Transforming Audiences in August 2011. (The presentation scheduled earlier for Lisbon was cancelled)
Sabina Mihelj presented the Fitna research at the European Communication Conference in Hamburg in October 2010, in a well attended session about social media and participation. According to the tweets following the session, both presenter and project were fantastic. Well done Sabina!
Liesbet van Zoonen will present the overall outcomes of the research in a keynote address to the joint Political Communication conference of the International Political Science Association and the UK Political Studies Association, taking place in Loughborough, November 3-5, 2010.
Liesbet van Zoonen will hold a talk about the theoretical and empirical implications of the Fitna research project at Sint Andrews University in Schotland, on October 26, 2010.
Liesbet van Zoonen has accepted an invitation from the EU COST-Transforming Audiences network to hold a keynote address about the Fitna-research, at their upcoming general meeting in Lisbon, November 11-12, 2010. The topic will be Participation and multiplication: understanding religious and political practice on YouTube.
Farida Vis will present a paper at the AHRC/ESRC 'Faith & Youth' one day conference of the 2nd of July. Title of the presentation: ‘Fitna: the video battle. An overview.’
Farida Vis will present a paper at the Social Media and the Sacred. The Mediating Religion International Research Network’s Annual Conference. 28-29 June, London. Title of presentation: Innovating methods across disciplines: studying religion on YouTube.
Our project researcher Farida Vis has been appointed as lecturer in the Department of Communication of Leicester University from September 1, 2010. CONGRATULATIONS FARIDA!
Liesbet van Zoonen will conduct a workshop on methodologies for studying religion and the media at the upcoming AHRC funded workshop on ‘Advanced Methods for the study of religion, at Oxford University on September 10, 2010.
Our paper YouTube Activists: Contesting Geert Wilders’ Fitna with visual means has been accepted for presentation at the Third Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) in Hamburg, Germany, October 12-15, 2010.
Our paper Islam on the popular battlefield: comedy vlogs and their responses (together with Fadi Hirzalla of the University of Amsterdam) was accepted for presentation at the international Contesting Religious Identities of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, October 13-15, 2010. [link to abstract].
Our article Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video Fitna, was accepted for publication in Critical Discourse Studies, vol.7(4), 2010. The article is available on request (see research team)
Liesbet van Zoonen will give a talk about the Fitna project at the Department of Communication of Leicester University, on June 16, 2010.
Liesbet van Zoonen will give a presentation about the Fitna project in the Information Society Seminar of the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, on March 10, 2009.
Liesbet van Zoonen will give a talk about the Fitna project at the Department of Media and Communication of the London School of Economics, on January 27, 2010.
Farida Vis will present the research about gender in and against Fitna at the ‘Islam and the Media’ conference of the Centre for Media, Religion and Culture of Colorado University (Boulder, USA) on January 9, 2010. For further details see: http://cmrc.colorado.edu/index.php/islammedia
Liesbet van Zoonen will give a talk about the Fitna project at Nottingham Trent University, on November 18, 1600 pm (George Elliot Building).
We have now selected the final corpus of videos for the project. Selecting and archiving (still in process!) this corpus from YouTube was quite an interesting challenge methodologically and we have described this process fully in the research blog. We are now working with 1413 videos that have been generated through ten carefully selected keyword searches, which were entered into a YouTube API programme that was developed especially for this project. We aim to shortly add a ‘how-to’ guide to the website, to show how our methods work and how they can be reproduced by those with similar research interests.
Liesbet van Zoonen will discuss "Fitna the video battle" following a screening of the controversial anti-Islam film, at the Nordic Network for the Mediatization of
Religion and Culture. The meeting takes place in Sigtunastiftelsen in Sweden on October 26-28. Other keynote speakers are Annelies Moors and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.
Liesbet van Zoonen will give a keynote lecture about Religion as media spectacle at the upcoming ECREA Conference on Media, Communication and the Spectacle, to be held at Erasmus University in Rotterdam on 26-27 November
Farida Vis will present a paper on the articulation of gender in and around Fitna at the CRESC symposium of the Media, Religion and Social Change group, June 27 in London. Link to PowerPoint (1.3Mb), Paper (54kb) and PDF. (392kb).
