Description
| Product ID: | 9780367697938 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | News Discourse and Power |
| Subtitle: | Critical Perspectives on Journalism and Inequality |
| Authors: | Author: Fergal Quinn, Maria Rieder, Henry Silke |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities, Sociology, News media and journalism, Social discrimination & inequality, Social groups, Sociology, Press & journalism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This edited collection includes eight chapters examining instances of where inequality is examined in the media, for example coverage of Thomas Piketty, precarity, corporate tax rates and race, class and gender- related issues. The issue of socio-economic inequality has become an increasingly important question for journalism and the academy. The 2008 economic crisis and the years of austerity which followed exasperated class and regional division and as an even greater economic shock emerges from the aftermath of the Covid 19 pandemic, the role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality assumes greater importance. This edited collection includes eight chapters examining instances of where inequality is examined in the media, for example coverage of Thomas Piketty, precarity, corporate tax rates and race-, class- and gender-related issues, in order to address the following questions:
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Critical Discourse Studies journal. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-25 |
