Full Description
This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts.
From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists", to well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers, class is undergoing change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated contributions unpack how media industries, digital technologies, everyday media practices—and media studies itself—feed into and comment upon broader, interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a wide range of topics, such as economic inequality, workplace stratification, the sharing economy, democracy and journalism, globalization, and mobility/migration.
Outward-looking, intersectional, and highly contemporary, The Routledge Companion to Media and Class is a must-read for students and researchers interested in the intersections between media, class, sociology, technology, and a changing world.
Contents
Introduction: Media and Class in the Twenty-first Century. Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Radhika Gajjala
Part I: Class and Mass Media
Working-class Bodies in Advertising. Matthew P. McAllister and Litzy Galarz
Class Hybridity and the Habitus Clivé on American Reality Television. June Deery
Migrants Meet Reality Shows: The Class Representation of Non-Koreans in Reality Shows in Korea. Hun-Yul Lee
Participation in Reality Television: Entertainment Mobilization in Dance Talent Shows. Annette Hill and Koko Kondo
Love, Sex, Money: Gender and Economic Inequality in HIV Edutainment Programming in Kenya. Renée A. Botta
Part II: Class in Interactive Digital and Mobile Media
Horse Racing, Social Class, and the Spaces of Gambling. Holly Kruse
"Keep it Classy": Grindr, Facebook and Enclaves of Queer Privilege in India. Rohit K. Dasgupta
YouTube-based Programming and Saudi Youth: Constructing a New Online Class and Monetizing Strategies. Omar Daoudi
Mobile Technology and Class: Australian Family Households, Socioeconomic Status and Techno-literacy. Will Balmford and Larissa Hjorth
Hanging Out at Home as a Lifestyle: YouTube Home Tour Vlogs in East Asia. Crystal Abidi
Young People, Smartphones, and Invisible Illiteracies: Closing the Potentiality-Actuality Chasm in Mobile Media. Sun Sun Lim and Renae Sze Ming Lo
Childhood, Media, and Class in South Asia. Shakuntala Banaji
Part III: Labor in Digital/Media Contexts
The Roots of Journalistic Perception: A Bourdieusian Approach to Media and Class. Sandra Vera-Zambrano and Matthew Powers
The Aspirational Class "Mobility" of Digital Nomads. Erika Polson
Technologies of Recognition: The Classificatory Function of Social Media in Mobile Careers. André Jansson
The Gig Economy and Class (De)composition. Todd Wolfson
Digital Hierarchies of Laboring Subjects. Kaitlyn Wauthier, Alyssa Fisher, and Radhika Gajjala
Between "World Class Work" and "Proletarianized Labor": Digital Labor Imaginaries in the Global South. Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Jason Vincent Cabañes
Part IV: Media, Class, and Expressions of Citizenship
Class Distinctions in Urban Broadband Initiatives. Germaine Halegoua
"Second-class" Access: Homelessness and the Digital Materialization of Class. Justine Humphry
Marginality and Social Class in Moroccan Youth Media. Mohamed El Marzouki
Reconsidering Mobility: The Competing Logics of Information and Communication Technologies Across Class Differences in the Context of Denver's Gentrification. Lynn Schofield Clark
Class Interplay in Social Activism in Kenya. Job Mwaura
Postscript
The Vivid Particularities of Class and Media. David Morley
