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New CASS Briefing now available — The EDL: moving right-wing populism online in the UK
The EDL: moving right-wing populism online in the UK. The English Defence League (EDL) is a far-right populist political movement and campaigns specifically on issues concerning the presence of Muslims and Islam in Western societies. This briefing from CASS presents the results of a corpus study on the online activities of the EDL and its…
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CASS Director Tony McEnery to be panelist at “Community Question Time – Islam and the Media”
On Thursday 25th April, Tony McEnery will join Dr. Sara Silvestri (City University London), Ahmad Bostan (Unity FM), and Simon Jones (Director of Communications, Policy and Performance at London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) at Regent’s Park Mosque to speak on the topic of Islam and the Media. This event is the sixth in a series of Question Time style…
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Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press
A new volume is now available from CASS investigators Paul Baker and Tony McEnery, along with Edge Hill University Senior Lecturer and Lancaster University alumnus Costas Gabrielatos: Baker, P., Gabrielatos , C. & McEnery, A. (2013). Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Is the…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.