The media and austerity : critical perspectives / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes, Sophie Knowles [editors].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Basu, Laura, 1981- editor.

Knowles, Sophie, 1985- editor.

Schifferes, Steve, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--Press coverage--Europe.

Financial crises.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in mass media.

Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) in mass media.

Press coverage.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xx, 267 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Introduction / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles

The UK experience. The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis / Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles

Media amnesia and the crisis / Laura Basu

Austerity, the media and the UK public / Mike Berry

The economic recovery on tv news / Richard Thomas

The Geddes axe: the press and Britain's first austerity drive / Richard Roberts

Continental perspectives. Covering the Euro crisis: cleavages and convergence between nations / Heinz-Werner Nienstedt

Austerity policies in the European press: a divided Europe? / Ángel Arrese

Safeguarding the status quo: the press and the emergence of a new left in Greece and Spain / Maria Kyriakidou and Iñaki Garcia-Blanco

Race and class in German media representations of the "Greek crisis" / Yiannis Mylonas

Journalistic practice and the crisis. Whose economy, whose news? / Aeron Davis

"Media macro": why the news media ignores economic experts / Simon Wren-Lewis

Financial journalists, the financial crisis and the "crisis" in journalism / Sophie Knowles

Reform in retreat: the media, the banks and the attack on Dodd-Frank / Adam Cox

Social media, social movements and the crisis. Social media and the capitalist crisis / Christian Fuchs

Narrative mediation of the Occupy Movement: a case study of Stockholm and Latvia / Anne Kaun & Maria Francesca Murru

Facebook and the new right: how populist politicians use social media to reimagine the news in Finland and the UK / Niko Hatakka

#thisisacoup: the emergence of an anti-austerity hashtag across Europe's twittersphere / Max Hänska & Stefan Bauchowitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138897304

1138897302

9781138897311

1138897310

OCLC:

1015259280