| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- News coverage of poverty: a frame analysis -- Speed, digital media and news coverage of poverty -- Mediated politics and poverty -- Advocacy, activism and advancing social justice -- Conclusion: democracy to come? |
| Summary |
"The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics discusses the influence of the increasing use of digital technologies on media and political responses to poverty in the United Kingdom and Canada. Poverty politics are considered at symbolic and structural levels. Through a frame analysis of mainstream and alternative news content, the book identifies which narratives dominate poverty coverage, what is missing from mainstream news coverage, and what can be learned by looking at alternative sources of news and information. The Mediation of Poverty argues that news coverage privileges and embeds neoliberal approaches to the issue of poverty in Canada and the United Kingdom. Interviews with journalists, politicians, researchers, and activists enable discussion, on a micro level, of the changing nature of news, politics, and activism, and how these changes are influencing poverty politics. The book raises concerns about how the speed of digitally-mediated working environments is reshaping--even foreclosing--opportunities for communication, reflection, and contestation in a way that reinforces the dominance of market-based thinking, and limits political responses to poverty"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Poverty -- Press coverage -- Great Britain
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Poverty -- Press coverage -- Canada
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Press and politics -- Great Britain
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Press and politics -- Canada
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Press and politics
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Canada
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739178614 |
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073917861X |
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