Social inequalities, media, and communication : theory and roots / edited by Jan Servaes and Toks Oyedemi.

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"Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies...

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Uniform Title:Communication, globalization, and cultural identity.
Other Authors: Servaes, Jan, 1952- (Editor)
Oyedemi, Toks (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]
Series:Communication, globalization, and cultural identity.
Subjects:
Digital divide.
Equality.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Physical Description:xxxix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Framing social and digital divides and digital inequalities : a structuralist, culturalist, and postmodernist theoretical review / Toks Oyedemi
  • Theorizing digital divides and digital inequalities / Massimo Ragnadda and Glenn W. Muschert
  • North-south "miscommunication" about "sustainable development and social change : contributions from postcolonial and decolonial theories / Eunice Castro Seixas
  • Postcolonial critical discourse analysis / Ruth Sanz Sabido
  • Class and gender inequalities in the process of political communication : Canadian illustrations / Debra M. Clarke
  • Black anglophone oligarchy in Jamaica : an alliance of media and slate / Nova M. Gordon-Bell
  • Media representation of class issues in Turkey : a review on media coverage of work-related rights / A. Fulya Sen and Y. Furkan Sen
  • Creating the myth of a better future : technological determinism and reproducing social inequalities / Banu Durdağ̆
  • Digital by default : consequences, casualties and coping strategies / Ilse Mariën, Rob Heyman, Koen Salemink, and Leo Van Audenhove
  • From racial capitalism to democratic capitalism : historical perspectives of inequalities and communication technologies in South Africa / Toks Oyedemi
  • Reform and vulnerability : parsing out the cyclical relationship of praxis and theory / Kala Ortwein, Sarah Rowe, and Olga Shapovalova.