In Casanova’s reading of the World Republic of Letters, major restructuration and hence proliferation of the literary world-system is neither totally ordained by academic institutionalization processes, nor confined to the systematization of language through difference and struggle against a hegemonic Latin. In her view, these are no less motivated and driven by the corporate effort...Read More

After years of discourse on the distortion of Islam by the media, this paper suggests that the link in understanding the (mis)representation of Islam is in the corpus of Orientalism. It argues that reporting on religions, or reporting on Islam, be adopted as critical components in the curricula of journalism education. It notes that in...Read More

As the Global War on Terror has prompted new interest in Islam in Southeast Asia, western governments have scrambled to engage with Muslim journalists in Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite this attention, surprisingly little is known about how journalists in these two majority Muslim countries actually think about the work they do. This article draws on...Read More

The development of the health communication field has been paralleled with the appreciation of the importance of the social and cultural context in understanding health, health behaviour and health communication. This argues both for a shift in methods and a shift in the theoretical and philosophical approaches underpinning these methods. A lack of understanding of...Read More