This book is among the first to systematically explore the
impact of community inequality on reporting political and social
change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by
the impact of media on society, "Media and Social Inequality"
explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media.
Using a 'community structure' approach, and rejecting the
perspective that studies of media and audiences can be reduced to
the individual level of psychological phenomena, all contributions
examine connections between community-level 'macro' characteristics
and variations in the coverage of critical issues. This innovative
book differs from previous community structure volumes in two ways.
First, contributions explore a far wider range of community
characteristics by employing creative methodologies, modern
archives, and databases that facilitate larger, more diverse
samples; multilevel and longitudinal analyses; composite measures
of both 'content' and editorial judgment; new technologies; and
social network analysis. Second, a traditional emphasis on media as
instruments of political and social 'control' is replaced by media
as potential mirrors of social 'change, ' exploring 'bottom-up'
measures of 'vulnerability', 'concentrated disadvantage', and
'ethnic diversity/pluralism'. The volume contains two original
chapters: one on nationwide US coverage of the "Occupy" movement in
the expanded introduction, and another on nationwide US coverage of
universal health care.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "Mass
Communication and Society."
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