Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This book contains chapter contributions written by scholars from around the world who engage in country- and region-specific case studies of social inequalities in media and communication. The volume is a theoretical exploration of the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality and how these theoretical discourses provide critical understanding of social inequalities in relation to narratives shaped by media and communication experiences. The contributors provide class and gender analyses of media and culture, engage theoretical discourses of inequalities and capitalism in relation to communication technologies, and explore the cyclical relationship of theory and praxis in studying inequalities, media, and communication.
Introduction: Is In/Equality Thinkable?, Toks Oyedemi and Jan Servaes Part I: In Search of the Theoretical Roots for a Study of Social Inequalities and Communication Chapter 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 Seixas Chapter 4: Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis, Ruth Sanz Sabido Part II: Class Analysis of Media and Culture Chapter 5: Class and Gender Inequalities in the Process of Political Communication: Canadian Illustrations, Debra M. Clarke Chapter 6: Black Anglophone Oligarchy in Jamaica: An Alliance of Media and State, Nova M. Gordon-Bell Chapter 7: Media Representation of Class Issues in Turkey: A Review on Media Coverage of Work-Related Rights, A. Fulya Sen and Y. Furkan Sen Part III: Technology and Inequalities Chapter 8: Creating the Myth of Better Future: Technological Determinism and Reproducing Social Inequalities, Banu Durdag Chapter 9: Digital by Default: Consequences, Casualties and Coping Strategies, Ilse Marien, Rob Heyman, Koen Salemink, and Leo Van Audenhove Chapter 10: From Racial Capitalism to Democratic Capitalism: History of Inequalities in South Africa and Access to Communication Technologies, Toks Oyedemi Part IV: From Theory to Praxis (and Vice Versa) Chapter 11: Reform and Vulnerability: Parsing Out the Cyclical Relationship of Praxis and Theory, Kala Ortwein, Sarah Rowe, and Olga Shapovalova Annex 1: Personal Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 2: Social Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 3: Cultural Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 4: Economic Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion Annex 5: Political Resources: At-risk Indicators and Characteristics of Social and Digital Exclusion
