Saira Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saira Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saira |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Sunshine Coast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0077-1492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Token pushback
With 96 federal counterterrorism laws, Australia surpasses nations facing greater terrorism threats, introducing unprecedented powers that challenge its legal system and democratic traditions, including press freedom. This study examines Australian media’s capacity to challenge authority and safeguard civil liberties amid expanding national security powers, focusing on Section 35P of the ASIO Act, Metadata Retention laws, and the Espionage & Fore…
A sense of home
This article interrogates how the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic influenced the way that we produce online personas as migrants to Australia. By conducting comparative autoethnographic analysis of our online personas built on the social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we unpack the role of mediated persona performance in connecting to our adopted homes as well as our connection to, and forced separation from, our countries of origin. There …
Mediatised Terrorism
This book offers an East-West comparative analysis of mediatised terrorism. This is the first country-specific analysis of the mediatisation of terrorism, with Pakistan and Australia representing the two worlds, respectively. Caught up in the ‘9/11 effect’, Australia is known for its anti-terror ‘hyper-legislation’, despite the implausible nature of the threat. In contrast, Pakistan is plagued by terrorism, yet the military establishment favours …
Mediatised Terrorism
Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia
Terrorism is not a threat to Western civilisation alone. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives and using Pakistan as a case, where the war-on-terror is being fought ceaselessly, analysis was carried out on Pakistan's mainstream media coverage of, and citizen media reactions to, the December 2014 Peshawar school terror attack where 144 people, mostly children, were killed. Discourse analysis of media texts reflects that Pakistan's mainstream m…
Trans-mediatized terrorism
This article presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermath of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the rep…
East–west trans-mediatisation of terrorism and Islamophobia
This article interrogates the notions of terrorism and Islamophobia in two cultural sites. Deploying case study, the article examines the 15 December 2014 Lindt Café siege in Australia and the 16 December 2014 Army Public School massacre in Pakistan. These sites were selected for comparative analysis due to their concurrence and as concerns surrounding terrorism have been mostly West-centric. Findings show that despite socio-political differences…
Trans-mediatized terrorism
This article presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermath of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the rep…
East–west trans-mediatisation of terrorism and Islamophobia
This article interrogates the notions of terrorism and Islamophobia in two cultural sites. Deploying case study, the article examines the 15 December 2014 Lindt Café siege in Australia and the 16 December 2014 Army Public School massacre in Pakistan. These sites were selected for comparative analysis due to their concurrence and as concerns surrounding terrorism have been mostly West-centric. Findings show that despite socio-political differences…
East–west trans-mediatisation of terrorism and Islamophobia
This article interrogates the notions of terrorism and Islamophobia in two cultural sites. Deploying case study, the article examines the 15 December 2014 Lindt Café siege in Australia and the 16 December 2014 Army Public School massacre in Pakistan. These sites were selected for comparative analysis due to their concurrence and as concerns surrounding terrorism have been mostly West-centric. Findings show that despite socio-political differences…
Trans-mediatized terrorism
This article presents an empirical analysis of the Australian media representation of terrorism using the 2014 Sydney Lindt Café siege as a case in point to engage with the notion of moral panic. Deploying critical discourse analysis and case study as mixed methods, insights into trans-media narratives and aftermath of the terrifying siege are presented. While news media appeared to collaborate with the Australian right-wing government in the rep…
Reporting terrorism in Muslim Asia
Terrorism is not a threat to Western civilisation alone. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives and using Pakistan as a case, where the war-on-terror is being fought ceaselessly, analysis was carried out on Pakistan's mainstream media coverage of, and citizen media reactions to, the December 2014 Peshawar school terror attack where 144 people, mostly children, were killed. Discourse analysis of media texts reflects that Pakistan's mainstream m…
Mediatised Terrorism
This book offers an East-West comparative analysis of mediatised terrorism. This is the first country-specific analysis of the mediatisation of terrorism, with Pakistan and Australia representing the two worlds, respectively. Caught up in the ‘9/11 effect’, Australia is known for its anti-terror ‘hyper-legislation’, despite the implausible nature of the threat. In contrast, Pakistan is plagued by terrorism, yet the military establishment favours …
Mediatised Terrorism
A sense of home
This article interrogates how the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic influenced the way that we produce online personas as migrants to Australia. By conducting comparative autoethnographic analysis of our online personas built on the social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, we unpack the role of mediated persona performance in connecting to our adopted homes as well as our connection to, and forced separation from, our countries of origin. There …
Token pushback
With 96 federal counterterrorism laws, Australia surpasses nations facing greater terrorism threats, introducing unprecedented powers that challenge its legal system and democratic traditions, including press freedom. This study examines Australian media’s capacity to challenge authority and safeguard civil liberties amid expanding national security powers, focusing on Section 35P of the ASIO Act, Metadata Retention laws, and the Espionage & Fore…
Political science (5 works) · Terrorism (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works)