Dr Farida Vis (Former Theme 2 Researcher)
Farida left CRESC in May 2009 and moved to the University of Loughborough. More information about Farida at Loughborough can be found here
CRESC Research interests
Farida Vis
Farida Vis’ research is centrally concerned with the reporting of global crises, visual culture, research methods, on and offline knowledge practices. She is a Research Associate in Media and Religion at Loughborough University. Currently she is working on a project, lead by Professor Liesbet van Zoonen that examines how YouTube users have responded to anti-Islam film Fitna released on the Internet in March 2008 by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Specifically the project is concerned with how Web 2.0 technologies allow young people to express their religious and public identities online. She writes a weekly project blog and maintains the project website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/research/FITNA/index.html
Before this she was Research Fellow in Transformations in Media, Culture and Economy for nearly five years at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). One of her key projects at the centre focused on the use of controversial images in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, analyzing online discussions, specifically those on picture-sharing site flickr as well as responses to the hurricane from citizen journalists. Her PhD, from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) looked at the print media representations, in the American and British press, of the Israel/Palestine conflict following the signing of the Oslo Accords, which started the so-called peace process in 1993. Specifically she looked at the reporting of events of political violence, both Israeli and Palestinian, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Whist at MMU her teaching focused on Visual Culture and she continues to teach there as a visiting lecturer.
Publications
- Van Zoonen, L., Hirzalla, F., Müller, F., and Vis, F., (2009)(under review) ‘Fitna the Video Battle’, Focaal: the European Journal of Anthropology.
- Toynbee, J. and Vis, F. (forthcoming) ‘World Music at the BBC World Service, 1942 - 2008: Public Diplomacy, Cosmopolitanism, Contradiction’, Media, Culture and Society.
- Vis, F. (2009) ‘Wikinews reporting of Huricane Katrina’, in S. Allan and E. Thorsen (eds) Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives. New York: Peter Lang
- Faulkner, S., Leaver, A., Vis, F., and Williams, K. (2008), ‘Art for art’s sake or selling up?’, The European Journal of Communication 23 (3): 295-317.
- Vis,(2008) ‘Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability (review)’, Media, War and Conflict, 1 (2): 240-241.
- Vis, F. and Vos.,K. (2005) 'Shifting views on public service broadcasting', Roest 24 (May): 19-21.
- Vis, F. (2002) ‘Islam en het ‘beschaafde’ westen’ (review), Skript 24 (2): 70-71 [in Dutch]
- Vis, F. (2000) ‘The bloc of the faithful: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel’, Skript 22 (4): 33-42.
Selection of recent conference prsentations/ invited talks
- 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.
- Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S., (2009), ‘Weapons of gender: images of women in and against Fitna’. ECREA Media, Communication and the Spectacle conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 26-27 November.
- Invited discussant at MEDIA, ISLAM AND MODERNITY: Challenges to the Nordic Context, organized by The Nordic Network for the Mediatization of Religion and Culture, Sigunta, Sweden 26-28 October 2009.
- Vis, F., van Zoonen, L. and Mihelj, S. (2009), 'Women's voices in and around Fitna'. CRESC Religion, Media and Social Change symposium on Media Reception, Participation and Power, London, 27 June.
- Ananiadou, S., Weissenbacher, D., Rea, B., Pieri, E., Lin, Y., Vis, F., Procter, R. and Halfpenny, P. (2009), ‘Supporting Frame Analysis using Text Mining’. The 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne 24 – 26 June.
- Vis, F. (2008), ‘Reporting lawlessness in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: did wikinews offer an alternative to the mainstream media?’. LSE Media and Humanities conference, 22-23 September.
- Invited discussant at ‘Mediapolis’ workshop, Open University, Milton Keynes, 10-11 June 2008.
- Vis, F. (2008), ‘Active citizens online: deliberation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’, invited presentation for Liverpool University’s Political Communication seminar, 16 April.
- Vis, F. (2008), ‘Framing the visual: an overview and some suggestions’ (part of organised ‘Framing the visual’ panel), MeCCSA conference, Cardiff University, 9-11 January.
Contact Details
Farida Vis
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
email: f.a.vis@lboro.ac.uk