Sing a Song, but Stay Out of Politics

Two Cases of Representations of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Danish Media

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ID20079972
AuthorsRikke Andreassen (0000-0003-0692-6288, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages163-180
Publication date2016-04-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMedia in Motion (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315594484-10
OpenAlexW2903662008
ISBN9781315594484
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This chapter analyses racial/ethnic minorities' representation in two different Danish media cases. It explains how racial/ethnic minorities' representation in the Danish media often functions as a tool for national inclusion or exclusion. The chapter examines the news media representations of a Danish Muslim woman, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, who ran for Parliament in 2007; the other is the television programme The X Factor, an entertainment programme with high viewer ratings and a substantial representation of minorities of colour. During the national parliamentary election campaign of 2007, Denmark had its first political candidate with a hijab headscarf. The social liberal newspaper Politiken carried a longer interview with Cekic, which clearly illustrated prejudiced attitudes towards Muslim women in general and Abdol-Hamid in particular. The X Factor programme represents a new way of portraying racial/ethnic minorities in Danish media, and allows a new visibility in Danish public service television

Danish · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy

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