The Routledge companion to media and class / edited by Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, and Radhika Gajjala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polson, Erika, editor.

Clark, Lynn Schofield, editor.

Gajjala, Radhika, 1960- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge media and cultural studies companions.

Routledge media and cultural studies companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Sociological aspects.

Mass media.

Social classes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Erika Polson is Associate Professor in the department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver, USA. Her research focuses on digital media and mobility in global contexts. She is author of Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-social Media, and a New Global Middle Class (2016). Lynn Schofield Clark is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies and Director of the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver, USA. She is co-author most recently of the award-winning, Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism (2017). Clark serves as President of the Association of Internet Researchers. Radhika Gajjala is Professor of American Culture Studies and Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University, USA. Her most recent book Digital Diasporas: Labor, Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics was published in 2019.

Summary:

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:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Media and Class in the Twenty-first; Historical Approaches Connecting Media and Class; Global and Digital Disruptions to Media and Class; Contents of the Book; Notes; Part I: Class and Mass Media; 2 Working-class Bodies in Advertising; Class and Advertising; Intersectionality of Class with Race and Gender; Symbolic Functions of White Working-class Males in Advertising

Conclusion: Trump, Increased Income Gaps, and the Importance of the Stories Ads TellNotes; 3 Class Hybridity and the Habitus Clivé on American Reality Television; Class Migration and Reality TV; Thematizing Class; The Drama of Dislocation: Class Hybridity and the Habitus Clivé; Habitus Clivé and the Feminine Docusoap; Conclusion and Political Coda; Notes; 4 Migrants Meet Reality Shows: The Class Representation of Non-Koreans in Reality Shows in Korea; Class Theory Applied to the Korean Context; Class and Migrations in Korea; Reality Shows in Korea; Non-Koreans on Korean Television; Conclusion

Notes5 Participation in Reality Television: Entertainment Mobilization in Dance Talent Shows; Researching Reality Talent Shows; Performance in Reality Talent Shows; Entertainment Mobilization; Reflections on Participation in Reality Television; Conclusion; Notes; 6 Love, Sex, Money: Gender and Economic Inequality in HIV Edutainment Programming in Kenya; HIV/AIDS in Kenyan Socioeconomic Context; Shuga: A Kenyan Case Study; Discussion; Notes; Part II: Class in Interactive Digital and Mobile Media; 7 Horse Racing, Social Class, and the Spaces of Gambling; Horse Racing, Gambling, and Class

Gambling in the HomeTechnologies, Class, and the Home; Horse Racing, Media, and the Lives of Ordinary People; Notes; 8 "Keep it Classy": Grindr, Facebook and Enclaves of Queer Privilege in India; Keep the Riff-Raffs Away; Sexual Threads of Caste; Speak Proper English; Moving Forward; Notes; 9 YouTube-based Programming and Saudi Youth: Constructing a New OnlineClass and Monetizing Strategies; YouTube-based Programming and Class; Contribution to the Study of Media; Contextualizing Saudi Arabia; The Creation of Saudi YouTube-based Programming Celebrity; Monetization of YouTube-based Programming

ConclusionNotes; 10 Mobile Technology and Class: Australian Family Households, Socioeconomic Status and Techno-literacy; Framing Class; Household Demographics and Multiple Device Literacy; Cultural Capital, BYOD and Financial Costs; Data Usage, Management, and Scenarios of Use; Conclusion; Notes; 11 Hanging Out at Home as a Lifestyle: YouTube Home Tour Vlogs in East Asia; East Asian Context and Methodology; Slow Living at Home; Home Cafés; Hanging Out at Home as a Lifestyle; Notes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

12 Young People, Smartphones, and Invisible Illiteracies: Closing the Potentiality-Actuality Chasm in Mobile Media

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Polson, Erika The Routledge Companion to Media and Class

ISBN:

9781351027342

1351027344

9781351027335

1351027336

9781351027311

135102731X

9781351027328

1351027328

OCLC:

1129223909

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