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The Mediation of Poverty
The News, New Media, and Politics
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2014
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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.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7860-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7861-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
181
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter Two: News Coverage of Poverty: A Frame Analysis No access Pages 21 - 62
Chapter Three: Speed, Digital Media, and News Coverage of Poverty No access Pages 63 - 90
Chapter Four: Mediated Political Centers and Poverty No access Pages 91 - 108
Chapter Five: Advocacy, Activism, and Advancing Social Justice No access Pages 109 - 136
Chapter Six: Conclusion: Democracy to Come? No access Pages 137 - 150
