The Media and Inequality

ISBN-13: 9780367611729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 264 str.

Opis

This book brings together a range of experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It will be of interest to scholars working in areas such as journalism, media studies, economics, the social sciences, as well as to political commentators and those interested in social policy.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables;  Notes on Contributors;  Acknowledgements;  Remembering John Hills by Howard Glennerster;  Introduction: The Media and Inequality;  Part I: Understanding Inequality;  1. Flat-lining or Seething Beneath the Surface? Two Decades of Changing Economic Inequality in the UK;  2. Wealth Inequality in the UK;  3. The Decline of Social Mobility;  4. Racial Economic Inequality: The Visible Tip of an Inequality Iceberg?;  5. Home Ownership: The Key to Inequality?;  Part II: Framing Poverty and Inequality;  6. Poverty and the Media: Poverty Myths and Exclusion in the Information Society;  7. The Rhetoric of Recession: How British Newspapers Talk About the Poor When Unemployment Rises;  8. Factual Television in the UK: The Rich, the Poor and Inequality;  9. Issue Attention to Income Inequality in the UK and US Print Media;  10. Comparative Trends in the Portrayal of Poverty and Inequality;  Part III: Public Opinion, Inequality, and the Media;  11. Public Attitudes to Poverty and Inequality;  12. Debating Inequality: The Case of Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century;  13. The Media and Austerity;  14. Covid, Inequality and the Media;  15. Stuck in a Feedback Loop: Why More Inequality Leads to Lower Levels of Concern