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Description

Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies of social inequalities in media and communication. The volume is a theoretical exploration of the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality and how these theoretical discourses provide critical understanding of social inequalities in relation to narratives shaped by media and communication experiences. The contributors provide class and gender analyses of media and culture, engage theoretical discourses of inequalities and capitalism in relation to communication technologies, and explore the cyclical relationship of theory and praxis in studying inequalities, media, and communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Is In/Equality Thinkable?, Toks Oyedemi and Jan Servaes
Part I: In Search of the Theoretical Roots for a Study of Social Inequalities and Communication
Chapter 1: Framing Social and Digital Inequalities: A Structuralist, Culturalist, and Post-modernist Theoretical Review, Toks Oyedemi
Chapter 2: Theorizing Digital Divides and Digital Inequalities, Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert
Chapter 3: North-South “Miscommunication” about “Sustainable Development” and Social Change: Contributions from Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories, Eunice Castro Seixas
Chapter 4: Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis, Ruth Sanz Sabido
Part II: Class Analysis of Media and Culture
Chapter 5: Class and Gender Inequalities in the Process of Political Communication: Canadian Illustrations, Debra M. Clarke
Chapter 6: Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica: An Alliance of Media and State, Nova M. Gordon-Bell
Chapter 7: Media Representation of Class Issues in Turkey: A Review on Media Coverage of Work-Rela

Product details

Published Feb 04 2016
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781978787889
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 b/w illustrations; 16 tables;
Series Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Jan Servaes

Anthology Editor

Toks Oyedemi

Contributor

Debra M. Clarke

Contributor

Banu Durdag

Contributor

Rob Heyman

Contributor

Ilse Mariën

Contributor

Kala Ortwein

Contributor

Toks Oyedemi

Contributor

Sarah Rowe

Contributor

Koen Salemink

Contributor

A. Fulya Sen

Contributor

Y. Furkan Sen

Contributor

Jan Servaes

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