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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.

Contains index

Series: Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

ISBN 978-1-4985-2345-5 (pbk); 978-1-4985-2344-8 (ebook)

Signature commbox: 10-Minorities-E 2016

I. IN SEARCH OF THE THEORETICAL ROOTS FOR A STUDY OF SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND COMMUNICATION
1 Framing Social and Digital Inequalities: A Structuralist, Culturalist, and Postmodernist Theoretical Review / Toks Oyedemi
2 Theorizing Digital Divides and Digital Inequalities / Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert
3 North-South "Miscommunication" about "Sustainable Development" and Social Change: Contributions from Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories / Eunice Castro Seixas
4 Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis / Ruth Sanz Sabido
II. CLASS ANALYSIS OF MEDIA AND CULTURE
5 Class and Gender Inequalities in the Process of Political Communication: Canadian Illustrations / Debra M. Clarke
6 Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica: An Alliance of Media and State / Nova M. Gordon-Bell
7 Media Representation of Class Issues in Turkey: A Review on Media Coverage of Work-Related Rights / A. Fulya Sen and Y. Furkan Sen
III. TECHNOLOGY AND INEQUALITIES
8 Creating the Myth of a Better Future: Technological Determinism and Reproducing Social Inequalities / Barm Durdag
9 Digital by Default: Consequences, Casualties and Coping Strategies / Ilse Marien, Rob Heyman, Koen Salemink, and Leo Van Audenhove
10 From Racial Capitalism to Democratic Capitalism: Historical Perspectives of Inequalities and Communication Technologies in South Africa / Toks Oyedemi
IV. FROM THEORY TO PRAXIS (AND VICE VERSA)
11 Reform and Vulnerability: Parsing Out the Cyclical Relationship of Praxis and Theory / Kala Ortwein, Sarah Rowe, and Olga Shapovalova