Mediation of Poverty

The News, New Media, and Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 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. Considering poverty politics at symbolic and structural levels, Joanna Redden uses a frame analysis of mainstream and alternative news content to identify 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 influences poverty politics. Redden 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-02-19
Mått160 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor190
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739178607

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The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics by Joanna Redden offers a study of how digital technology in Britain and Canada impacts news coverage of poverty issues. Redden uses a frame analysis of mainstream and alternative news content to identify 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. She argues that news coverage favors 'neoliberal' approaches to poverty in both nations. Her interviews with journalists, politicians, researchers, and social activists support a discussion of the changing nature of news, politics, and activism, and how this mix influences 'poverty politics.' She raises concerns about how the pace of digital working environments (and deadline-driven news) impacts reasoned consideration in a way that reinforces dominant market-based thinking, thus limiting the range of political responses to dealing with poverty.