Blaming the Victim - How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty

Informationen zum Autor Jairo Lugo-Ocando is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty (Pluto, 2014). His research addresses the relation between journalism, development, poverty and social exclusion. Klappentext Zusammenfassung An analysis of how poverty is misrepresented in mainstream media! and a look at what really lies behind these narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1: The subjectivity of poverty 2: The poverty of ideas in the newsroom 3: What lies beneath? 4: Africa! that scar on our face 5: Visual Journalism and Global Poverty 6: Spinning poverty! 7: The emergence of alternative voices Conclusions: Beyond the unsustainable news agenda References Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Jairo Lugo-Ocando, Lugo-Ocando Jairo
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2014
• EAN: 9780745334424
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3442-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Propaganda, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, North America, Africa, Press & journalism, Poverty & unemployment, North America (USA and Canada), Political control and freedoms, Poverty and precarity