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The media and inequality

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2023), 264 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-367-61175-0 (pbk); 978-1-00-310447-6 (online)
"This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolve... more
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est... more

Las representaciones de la pobreza y los pobres en la prensa argentina: análisis de los editoriales de los diarios La Nación y Clarín

Barcelona: Doctoral Thesis Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) (2020), xv, 295 pp., bibliogr. p.261-286
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t... more

Slums on screen: world cinema and the planet of slums

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.263-277
ISBN 978-1-4744-0687-1 (online); 978-1-4744-0686-4 (print); 978-1-4744-0687-1 (print)
Other Editions: Doctoral thesis, Universität Mannheim, 2013
"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse '... more

The poverty of television: the mediation of suffering in class-divided Philippines

London: Anthem Press (2015), 226 pp., bibliogr., index
ISBN 978-1-78308-408-1 (ebook); 978-1-78308-406-7 (print)
"Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television." (Publisher)

Representations of global poverty: aid, development and international NGOs

London: Tauris (2014) Pbk. ed., xxi, 233 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.210-221, index
ISBN 978-0-85773-261-3 (ebook); 978-1-78076-773-4 (pbk)
Other Editions: hbk ed. 2012
"Through the efforts of increasingly media-aware NGOs, people in the west are bombarded with images of poverty and inequality in the developing world. Representations of Poverty is the first comprehensive study of the communications and imagery used by international NGOs to represent the developing ... more

Banking on mobiles: why, how, for whom?

Washington, DC: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) (2008), 27 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.24
"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi... more

La pobreza es noticia: estudio sobre los noticieros centrales de la TV chilena

Santiago de Chile: Hogar de Cristo; Facultad de Comunicación y Letras Universidad Diego Portales; Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza (2005), 80 pp., bibliogr. p.80
ISBN 956-7446-03-2
"¿Cómo se muestra la pobreza en los noticieros?, ¿Qué recursos periodísticos son utilizados en la construcción noticiosa?, ¿hablan técnicos o pobres?, ¿cuánto tiempo duran en promedio?, ¿qué temas específicos tratan? Son algunas de las interrogantes que se formularon al inicio de este e... more