Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

ISBN-13: 9783030735425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Irena Reifov?; Martin H?jek

Spis treści

1. Chapter 1: Perspectives on Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty in European Contexts; Irena Reifová and Martin Hájek.- 2. Chapter 2: ‘Benefits Scroungers’ and Stigma: Exploring the Abject-Grotesque in British Poverty Porn Programming; Louise Cope.- 3. Chapter 3: Neural Attunement to Others: Shame, Social Status, and Rewarded Viewing in Reality Television in Sweden; Anja Hirdman.- 4. Chapter 4: Shame, (Dis)Empowerment and Resistance in Diasporic Media: Romanian Transnational Migrants’ Reclassification Struggles; Irina Diana Mădroane.- 5. Chapter 5: Mediating Class in a Classless Society? Media and Social Inequalities in Socialist Eastern Europe; Sabina Mihelj.- 6. Chapter 6: Invisibility or Inevitability: Performing Poverty in Czech Reality Television; Martin Hájek and Daniel Frantál.- 7. Chapter 7: Shaming Working-Class People on Reality Television: Perspectives from Swedish Television Production; Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt.- 8. Chapter 8: Disparaging ‘the Assisted’: Shaming and Blaming Social Welfare Recipients in Romania and Hungary; Hanna Orsolya Vincze, Andreea Alina Mogoș and Radu Mihai Meza.- 9. Chapter 9: Othering without Blaming: Representing Poverty in Flemish Factual Entertainment ; Alexander Dhoest, Marleen te Walvaart and Koen Panis.- 10. Chapter 10: Inter- and Intranational Mediated Shaming to Justify Austerity Measures: The Case of the ‘Greek Crisis’; Yiannis Mylonas.- 11. Chapter 11: Social Distances through Scopic Practices: How Czech Reality Television Audiences Negotiate Social Inequalities ; Irena Reifová.- 12. Chapter 12: Everybody is a Fool: Rural Life, Social Order and Carnivalesque Marginalisation in a Hungarian Television Series; Balázs Varga.

O autorze

Irena Reifová is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. She is focusing on cultural studies, theory of popular culture, television studies and post-socialist mediated memory. Since 2016 she has been working as ECREA General Secretary. 

Martin Hájek is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czechia. His research interests are normative orders of society, symbolic interactionism, discourse and narrative analysis. He is the author of a monograph on various types of textual analysis and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.