Joanna Redden is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University.

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.

• 1. Introduction2. News Coverage of Poverty: A Frame Analysis3. Speed, Digital Media and News Coverage of Poverty4. Mediated Politics and Poverty5. Advocacy, Activism and Advancing Social Justice6. Conclusion: Democracy to Come?

Joanna Redden is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University.

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.

• 1. Introduction2. News Coverage of Poverty: A Frame Analysis3. Speed, Digital Media and News Coverage of Poverty4. Mediated Politics and Poverty5. Advocacy, Activism and Advancing Social Justice6. Conclusion: Democracy to Come?

Joanna Redden is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Infoscape Research Lab, Ryerson University.

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.

• 1. Introduction2. News Coverage of Poverty: A Frame Analysis3. Speed, Digital Media and News Coverage of Poverty4. Mediated Politics and Poverty5. Advocacy, Activism and Advancing Social Justice6. Conclusion: Democracy to Come?