Social inequalities, media, and communication : theory and roots

Social inequalities, media, and communication : theory and roots / edited by Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi.

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 communica...

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Other Authors: Servaes, Jan, 1952- (Editor), Oyedemi, Toks (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
Series:Communication, globalization, and cultural identity.
Subjects:
Digital divide.
Equality.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Digital divide
Equality
Information technology > Political aspects
Information technology > Social aspects
Mass media > Political aspects
Mass media > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; IntroductionIs: In/Equality Thinkable?; Part I. IN SEARCH OF THE THEORETICAL ROOTS FOR A STUDY OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COMMUNICATION; Chapter One. Framing Social and Digital Inequalities: A Structuralist, Culturalist, and Postmodernist Review; Chapter Two. Theorizing Digital Divides and Inequalities; Chapter Three. North-South "Miscommunication" about "Sustainable Development" and Social Change: Contributions from Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories; Chapter Four. Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis.
  • Part II. CLASS ANALYSIS OF MEDIA AND CULTUREChapter Five. Class and Gender Inequalities in the Process of Political Communication: Canadian Illustrations; Chapter Six. Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica: An Alliance of Media and State; Chapter Seven. Media Representation of Class Issues in Turkey: A Review on Media Coverage of Work-Related Rights; Part III. TECHNOLOGY AND INEQUALITIES; Chapter Eight. Creating the Myth of a Better Future: Technological Determinism and Reproducing Social Inequalities; Chapter Nine. Digital by Default: Consequences, Casualties and Coping Strategies.
  • Chapter Ten. From Racial Capitalism to Democratic Capitalism: Historical Perspectives of Inequalities and Communication Technologies in South AfricaPart IV. FROM THEORY TO PRAXIS (AND VICE VERSA); Chapter Eleven. Reform and Vulnerability: Parsing Out the Cyclical Relationship of Praxis and Theory; 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 ExclusionAnnex 5. Political Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion; Index; About the Contributors.

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