The Poverty of Television
Title | The Poverty of Television PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Corpus Ong |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1783084081 |
Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media, this book challenges existing work in media studies and sociology that focuses solely on textual analysis and philosophical approaches to the question of representing vulnerable others. Current questions in media ethics, such as whether to portray sufferers as humane and empowered individuals or show them ‘at their worst’ have so far used textual and visual analyses to convey the researcher’s own moral position on the matter. In contrast, this book, inspired by the anthropology of moralities, accounts for the different interpretations and moral positions of audiences, who are positioned in various degrees of social and moral proximity to those they see and hear on television. Winner of the 2016 Philippine Social Science Council Excellence in Research Award.
The Poverty of Television
Title | The Poverty of Television PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Corpus Ong |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783084448 |
Based on a 20-month ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. The book aims to contribute to the broader project of de-Westernizing media studies and explore the tension between ethical prescription and anthropological description in the social sciences and humanities. Winner of the 2016 Philippine Social Science Council Excellence in Research Award.
Framing Class
Title | Framing Class PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Kendall |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2011-04-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442202254 |
Framing Class explores how the media, including television, film, and news, depict wealth and poverty in the United States. Fully updated and revised throughout, the second edition of this groundbreaking book now includes discussions of new media, updated media sources, and provocative new examples from movies and television, such as The Real Housewives series and media portrayals of the new poor and corporate executives in the recent recession. The book introduces the concepts of class and media framing to students and analyzes how the media portray various social classes, from the elite to the very poor. Its accessible writing and powerful examples make it an ideal text or supplement for courses in sociology, American studies, and communications.
Poverty in the United States
Title | Poverty in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe
Title | Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Irena Reifová |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2021-07-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030735435 |
The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, or concepts and numbers; both class and poverty are assumed to be, above all, particular social relationships or a set of relations between people, things and symbols. Without denying that contempt for the destitute Other is an affect found throughout history and in various socioeconomic contexts, the chapters in this book – through their concern with the mediated gaze on class – narrate predominantly the challenges brought about by the media’s spectacular take on poverty and low status as they (at least) coincide with the neoliberal era. This volume will be essential reading for the scholars specialising in the study of media and social inequalities form the vantage points of Media Studies, Sociology, Anthropology or European Studies.
Television, Democratic Theory and the Visual Construction of Poverty
Title | Television, Democratic Theory and the Visual Construction of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Entman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 29 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Television broadcasting of news |
ISBN |
America's New War on Poverty
Title | America's New War on Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lavelle |
Publisher | KQED Books & Tapes |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
This companion to PBS-TV's upcoming America's War On Poverty series offers a profound look at one of America's most pressing problems. Through gripping interviews, stories, essays, profiles and first-person accounts, this book helps readers share what it is like to be poor in America, and also offers ideas for action against poverty.