Inequality affects us all. With insightful contributions from twenty-six prominent scholars, The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective presents country-specific studies that enunciate media depictions of poverty, technology-related inequalities, the media’s role in empowering women, and media representations of race, sexuality, and gender. This book should be essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the media’s significant, but somewhat controversial, role in our global society.

Debashis Aikat, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This very timely collection argues that social inequality is the ordinary—but often invisible—product of the practice of global capitalism. The contributors critically analyze the news media and how it legitimizes and normalizes the praxis of inequality around the globe. They also identify possibilities for developing more equitable practices in news storytelling and in the distribution of media technologies to those most marginalized by capitalism.

Christopher R. Martin, University of Northern Iowa

Empirically rich and drawing from a range of experiences of poverty from around the world, this collection fully delivers on its purpose: to open up theoretical frameworks and methodologies around the intersection of social inequality and media. Scholarly critiques of classical theories of economics and political science and rigorous examinations of neoliberalism and neocolonialism are strengthened through case studies that demonstrate the importance of contextually grounded analyses, and that of facilitating spaces for voice and active participation. The result is a dynamic collection of examples of the agency of underrepresented populations—not just in socioeconomic mappings, but in academic research as well.

Divya McMillin, University of Washington Tacoma