Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication

Jan Servaes is chair professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong and UNESCO chair in communication for sustainable social change at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Toks Oyedemi received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

If Thomas Piketty put inequality on the global agenda for academics and policy makers, then this collection puts it on the map for communication scholarship, policy research, and media activism. Combining a range of approaches to critical theory with rich case studies, Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication shines a bright light on one of the world’s most critical problems.

• Introduction: Is In/Equality Thinkable?, Toks Oyedemi and Jan ServaesPart I: In Search of the Theoretical Roots for a Study of Social Inequalities and CommunicationChapter 1: Framing Social and Digital Inequalities: A Structuralist, Culturalist, and Post-modernist Theoretical Review, Toks Oyedemi Chapter 2: Theorizing Digital Divides and Digital Inequalities, Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn W. Muschert Chapter 3: North-South “Miscommunication” about “Sustainable Development” and Social Change: Contributions from Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories, Eunice Castro SeixasChapter 4: Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis, Ruth Sanz SabidoPart II: Class Analysis of Media and CultureChapter 5: Class and Gender Inequalities in the Process of Political Communication: Canadian Illustrations, Debra M. ClarkeChapter 6: Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica: An Alliance of Media and State, Nova M. Gordon-BellChapter 7: Media Representation of Class Issues in Turkey: A Review on Media Coverage of Work-Rela