Economic Inequality and News Media (eBook, ePUB)

Discourse, Power, and Redistribution
Redaktion: Grisold, Andrea; Preston, Paschal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Economic inequalities have become increasingly prominent in public debate in the last decade as sluggish economic growth, declining or stagnant incomes, high unemployment, and state policy regimes orientated towards austerity dominate many core capitalist regions, often with extreme turbulence in the political arena. Debate over these issues unfolds in both the public sphere and within the academy, with the conversation developing from two disciplinary areas in particular: economics and political economy, and journalism and communication studies. Economic Inequality and News Media brings these fields together. In this interdisciplinary volume, Andrea Grisold and Paschal Preston build on a unique multi-country research project exploring how news media cover and frame issues of economic inequality. Taking media coverage of Thomas Piketty's best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century as a case study, this book addresses important blind-spots in the relationship between mainstream media and economics. It interrogates both the failure of economists' to engage with the evolving role of the media as well as journalists' tendency to overlook key aspects of economic processes and power that are politically relevant and of public interest. Grisold and Preston tackle this disconnect and argue for a multi-disciplinary approach in which they acknowledge the crucial role the mass media plays in creating and disseminating economic information. The book explores important questions such as: How do new forms of economic inequality, power, and privilege relate to prevailing theories and conceptualizations of the media? What roles do new trends and forms of economic inequality play in the typical narratives of mediated communication? How do we construct the story of inequality? This eye-opening and transdisciplinary book sheds new light not only on the relation between news media and economic inequality, but also on economic issues more broadly. In an evolving world experiencing the rise of ultra-nationalism, populism, and rampant economic uncertainty, Economic Inequality and News Media is a crucial investigation of the nuances of economic news media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190053925
• Artikelnr.: 60397778

Autorenporträt

Andrea Grisold is Professor of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and head of the Institute for Heterodox Economics. She is author of numerous papers and books on the interrelations of economics and mass media, and focused on the comparative political economy of the media throughout visiting professorships, e.g. at Trinity College Dublin, University of New Orleans, and Harvard University. Paschal Preston is Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication, Dublin City University (DCU). He is author or editor of multiple books, including The Handbook of European Communication History (2019) and Making the News: Journalism and News Cultures in Europe (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Introduction: The What
How
and Why of this Book (by Paschal Preston
Andrea Grisold) * 2. Trends in Economic Inequality and News Mediascape (by Hendrik Theine
Daniel Grabner) * 3. Inequality
Mediatization and Critical Takes on 'Making the News' (by Paschal Preston) * 4. Media and Economic Inequality: Review of Prior Research (by Andrea Grisold
Hendrik Theine) * 5. Social Semiotics and Journalistic Discourses on Economics and Inequality (by Maria Rieder
Henry Silke) * 6. Media Coverage of Economic Inequality - The Empirical Study - An Initial Overview (by Maria Rieder
Henry Silke
Hendrik Theine) * 7. Meritocracy
Markets
Social Mobility: Inequality is not a Crucial Issue (by Andrea Grisold
Henry Silke) * 8. Stagnation
Social tensions
Unfairness: Economic inequality as a Problem (by Daniel Grabner
Andrea Grisold
Hendrik Theine) * 9. "Is this Feasible?" Policy Proposals such as a Global Wealth Tax (by Andrea Grisold
Maria Rieder
Hendrik Theine) * 10. News Media and Economic Inequality - Reflections and Requisite Reforms (by Andrea Grisold
Paschal Preston)