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This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has evolved historically; how it has been represented and portrayed in the media; and how, in turn, those representations have informed the public's knowledge of and attitudes towards poverty, class and welfare, and political discourse.
Taking a multi-disciplinary, comparative, and historical approach, and using a variety of new and original data sets to inform the research, studies herein examine the relationship between media and inequality in UK, Western Europe, and USA. In addition to generating new knowledge and research agendas, the book generates suggestions of ways to improve news coverage on this topic and raise the level of the debate, and will improve understanding about economic inequality, as it has evolved, and as it continues to develop in academic, political and media discourses.
This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike in the areas of journalism, media studies, economics, and the social sciences, as well as political commentators and those interested more broadly in social policy.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Remembering John Hills by Howard Glennerster; Introduction: The Media and Inequality; Part I: Understanding Inequality; 1. Flat-lining or Seething Beneath the Surface? Two Decades of Changing Economic Inequality in the UK; 2. Wealth Inequality in the UK; 3. The Decline of Social Mobility; 4. Racial Economic Inequality: The Visible Tip of an Inequality Iceberg?; 5. Home Ownership: The Key to Inequality?; Part II: Framing Poverty and Inequality; 6. Poverty and the Media: Poverty Myths and Exclusion in the Information Society; 7. The Rhetoric of Recession: How British Newspapers Talk About the Poor When Unemployment Rises; 8. Factual Television in the UK: The Rich, the Poor and Inequality; 9. Issue Attention to Income Inequality in the UK and US Print Media; 10. Comparative Trends in the Portrayal of Poverty and Inequality; Part III: Public Opinion, Inequality, and the Media; 11. Public Attitudes to Poverty and Inequality; 12. Debating Inequality: The Case of Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century; 13. The Media and Austerity; 14. Covid, Inequality and the Media; 15. Stuck in a Feedback Loop: Why More Inequality Leads to Lower Levels of Concern
