Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Theory and Roots
Herausgeber: Oyedemi, Toks; Servaes, Jan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains contributions from an international array of scholars and provides a global analysis of theoretical approaches to social inequalities as they relate to media and communication, including critical discussions of class and gender analyses and discourses on capitalism and communication technology.

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Produktdetails

• Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781498523455
• ISBN-10: 1498523455
• Artikelnr.: 48895513

Autorenporträt

Jan Servaes is chair professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong and UNESCO chair in communication for sustainable social change at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Toks Oyedemi received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

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-Related Rights, A. Fulya Sen and Y. Furkan Sen Part III: Technology
and Inequalities Chapter 8: Creating the Myth of Better Future:
Technological Determinism and Reproducing Social Inequalities, Banu Durdä
Chapter 9: Digital by Default: Consequences, Casualties and Coping
Strategies, Ilse Mariën, Rob Heyman, Koen Salemink, and Leo Van Audenhove
Chapter 10: From Racial Capitalism to Democratic Capitalism: History of
Inequalities in South Africa and Access to Communication Technologies, Toks
Oyedemi Part IV: From Theory to Praxis (and Vice Versa) Chapter 11: Reform
and Vulnerability: Parsing Out the Cyclical Relationship of Praxis and
Theory, Kala Ortwein, Sarah Rowe, and Olga Shapovalova Annex 1: Personal
Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital
Exclusion Annex 2: Social Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics
of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 3: Cultural Resources: At-risk
Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 4:
Economic Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and
Digital Exclusion Annex 5: Political Resources: At-risk Indicators and
Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion