Blaming the victim : how global journalism fails those in poverty /

"Poverty is a recurrent theme in the news media, often linked to different underlying agendas. Issues such as famine, exclusion and conflict are regularly represented in the media as the consequence of poverty. However, there is no overarching consensus about what it is. Very different narrativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lugo-Ocando, Jairo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : PlutoPress, 2015.
Subjects:
Social problems in mass media.
Poverty in mass media.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Problèmes sociaux dans les médias.
Pauvreté dans les médias.
Médias > Aspect social.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Mass media > Social aspects
Poverty in mass media
Social problems in mass media
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The subjectivity of poverty
  • The poverty of ideas in the newsroom with Steven Harkins
  • What lies beneath?
  • Africa, that car on our face with Patrick O. Malaolu
  • Visual journalism and global poverty with Scott Eldridge II
  • Spinning poverty!
  • The emergence of alternative voices
  • Conclusion : beyond the unsustainable news agenda.

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