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 Durdağ
Chapter 9: Digital by Default: Consequences, Casualties and Coping
Strategies, Ilse Mariën, 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
Jan Servaes is chair professor in the Department of Media and
Communication at the City University of Hong Kong and UNESCO chair
in communication for sustainable social change at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
Toks Oyedemi received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
If Thomas Piketty put inequality on the global agenda for academics
and policy makers, then this collection puts it on the map for
communication scholarship, policy research, and media activism.
Combining a range of approaches to critical theory with rich case
studies, Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication shines a
bright light on one of the world’s most critical problems.
*Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada*
Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots
offers a different approach to the field of media and communication
research. The thematic area as such is well known and frequently
studied, but this anthology brings in a new bouquet of fresh
international researchers. It also provides new frameworks for such
well-studied concepts as the North/South contradiction, digital
divide, and sustainable development. The chapters are based on
historical roots and postcolonial theories, but they also present
case studies on class, race, gender, and communication technology,
frequently challenging conventional categories of theory and
praxis.
*Ullamaija Kivikuru, University of Helsinki*
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