Publications
Published, or accepted for publication
Mihelj, S., Van Zoonen, L. and F. Vis (2012). Cosmopolitanism and the Muslim Ummah On-line: ‘YouTubers’ responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna. Available on request from the research team. British Journal of Sociology, forthcoming. PDF
Van Zoonen, L. Van, Mihelj, S. and F. Vis (2011). YouTube interactions between agonism, antagonism and dialogue: video responses to the anti-Islam film Fitna. New Media and Society, online first, June 16. PDF
Vis, F., Van Zoonen, L. Van, and S. Mihelj (2011). Women responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna: voices and acts of citizenship on YouTube. Feminist Review, 97, 110-129. PDF
Zoonen, L. van, Vis, F. and S. Mihelj (2010). Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam video Fitna. Critical Discourse Studies, 7(4), 249 – 262. PDF
Zoonen, L. van, Müller, F. and F. Hirzalla (2009). De slag om Fitna [Fitna, the video battle]. In M. Aarts and M. van der Haak (eds). Popvirus: popularization of religion and culture. Amsterdam: Aksant Publishers.
Under review
Hirzalla, F., Van Zoonen, L. And F. Müller (under review). How funny can Islam controversies be? Comedians defending their faith on YouTube. PDF
Conference papers
Hirzalla, F., Van Zoonen, L. And F. Müller. How funny can Islam controversies be? Comedians defending their faith on YouTube. Paper presented at The Future of the Religious Past, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Amsterdam, June 18, 2011.
Mihelj, S., Van Zoonen, L. and F. Vis (2010). Cosmopolitanism and the Muslim Ummah On-line: ‘YouTubers’ responding to the anti-Islam film Fitna. Paper presented to the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Hamburg, October 2010. Available on request from the research team.
Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and S. Milhelj (2009). Weapons of Gender: Images of women in and against Fitna. Paper presented at the ECREA conference ‘Media, Communication and the Spectacle’ (Erasmus University, 26-27 November 2009). [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. & S. Mihelj (2009).'Women's voices in and around Fitna'. Paper presented at CRESC Religion, Media and Social Change symposium on Media Reception, Participation and Power, London, 27 June 2009. [PDF] [Link to PowerPoint
Van Zoonen, L., Hirzalla, F. & F. Müller (2009, under review). Fitna, the video battle. Paper presented at the Etmaal voor Communicatiewetenschap, Nijmegen, Netherlands, January.
Conference presentations
Zoonen, L. Van, Vis. F. and S. Mihelj (2011). YouTube and the enactment of citizenship. International Association of Mass Communication Research.
Hirzalla, F. And L. Van Zoonen (2010). How funny can Islam controversies be? Comedians defending their faith on YouTube. Presentation to the International Contesting Religious Identities Conference of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, October 13-15, 2010
Zoonen, L. van (2010). Innovative methods in studying media and religion. Presentation for the AHRC PhD training seminar Innovative methods in the study of religion. Oxford, September10, 2010.
Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S.(2010), Fitna: the video battle. Outreach, impact and creative dissemination. Presented at the Public Engagement for Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers event, organised by Connection Factory, University of Westminister, 29 April. [link to PowerPoint presentation].
Vis, F., Thelwall, M., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S. (2010), Challenging dominant representations of Islam online: innovative methods for studying YouTube, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference, London, 29-30 March.Link to Powerpoint presentation.
Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S., (2010), ‘Fitna: the video battle. Analyzing responses to the controversial anti-Islam film on Youtube. Islam and the Media
conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, 7-10 January. Powerpoint.
Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. & S. Mihelj (2009).'Women's voices in and around Fitna'. Paper presented at CRESC Religion, Media and Social Change symposium on Media Reception, Participation and Power, London, 27 June 2009 (1.3Mb) (392kb).
Talks
School of Media Arts and Design, Westminster University, November 2, 2011.
School of Political, Social and International Studies of East Anglia University, Febraury 15, 2011
Department of Film Studies, University of St. Andrews, October 26, 2010.
Dutch School of Public Administration, September 14, 2010.
Department of Communication of Leicester University, June 16, 2010.
Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, March 11, 2010.
Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, on March 10, 2010.
Department of Media and Communication of the London School of Economics, on January 27, 2010.
Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent University, on November 18, 2009.
